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Pain General

The sociocultural context of pediatric pain: an examination of the portrayal of pain in children's popular media.

Dec 03, 2020

Pain (eg, needle injections, injuries, and chronic pain) is highly prevalent in childhood and occurs in social contexts. Nevertheless, broader sociocultural influences on pediatric pain, such as popul...

Clinical features and outcomes from the Singapore Sjögren's syndrome study.

Dec 03, 2020

To study the clinical features, treatment and outcomes of primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS) in a Singapore cohort from an outpatient rheumatology clinic.Computerised Physician Order entry records of p...

Accelerated atherosclerosis in premenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis - 15-year follow-up.

Dec 03, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased mortality and morbidity due to the higher cardiovascular risk in these patients. Traditional risk factors are not ...

High Prevalence of Perineural Cysts in Patients with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Dec 03, 2020

Pain in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is assumed to originate from central sensitization. Perineural cysts or Tarlov cysts (TCs) are nerve root dilations resulting from patholog...

Trends in Academic Neurological Spine Surgeon Productivity as Measured by the Relative Citation Ratio (RCR).

Nov 30, 2020

The assessment of academic physicians should utilize field-independent publication metrics to measure improvement of grant outcomes, promotion, and continued evaluation of research productivity. Publi...

Does oblique lumbar interbody fusion promote adjacent degeneration in degenerative disc disease: A finite element analysis.

Nov 30, 2020

The number of oblique lumbar interbody fusion (OLIF) procedures has continued to rise over recent years. Adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) is a common complication following vertebral body fusion. A...

Yersinia enterocolitica: A Follow-up of the Outbreak in the Norwegian Armed Forces in 2014.

Nov 30, 2020

In the spring of 2014, there was an outbreak of Yersinia enterocolitica (YE) gastroenteritis in four Norwegian military camps-the largest outbreak ever reported in Norway. YE is usually transmitted vi...

G protein-coupled receptor GPR151 is involved in trigeminal neuropathic pain via the induction of Gβγ/ERK-mediated neuroinflammation in the trigeminal ganglion.

Nov 30, 2020

Trigeminal nerve injury-induced neuropathic pain is a debilitating chronic orofacial pain syndrome but lack of effective treatment. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), especially orphan GPCRs (oGPCRs...

Brain imaging signature of neuropathic pain phenotypes in small-fiber neuropathy: altered thalamic connectome and its associations with skin nerve degeneration.

Nov 30, 2020

Small-fiber neuropathy (SFN) has been traditionally considered as a pure disorder of peripheral nervous system, characterized by neuropathic pain and degeneration of small-diameter nerve fibers in the...

Activation of Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1 Selectively Attenuates the Reinforcing Effects of Morphine.

Nov 30, 2020

Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) plays a critical role in regulating dopamine transmission. Previous studies showed that pharmacologically or genetically manipulating the activity of TAAR1 mo...

Chronic Developmental Lead Exposure increases μ-Opiate Receptor Levels in the Adolescent Rat Brain.

Nov 30, 2020

Childhood lead (Pb) intoxication is a global public health problem best known for producing deficits in learning and poor school performance. Human and preclinical studies have suggested an associatio...

The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-term ) Communities Study: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial at the community level to reduce opioid overdose deaths through implementation of an integrated set of evidence-based practices.

Nov 30, 2020

Opioid overdose deaths remain high in the U.S. Despite having effective interventions to prevent overdose deaths, there are numerous barriers that impede their adoption. The primary aim of the HEALing...

Effect of migraine attack on pupil size, accommodation and ocular aberrations.

Nov 30, 2020

To evaluate the pupil size, accommodation, and ocular higher-order aberrations (HOAs) in patients with migraine during migraine attacks and compare them with interictal period and healthy controls.Thi...

Super-Utilization of the Emergency Department in a Universally Insured Population.

Nov 30, 2020

Super-utilizers (patients with 4 or more emergency department [ED] visits a year) account for 10% to 26% of all ED visits and are responsible for a growing proportion of healthcare expenditures. Patie...

The Interplay between Oxidative Stress, Exercise, and Pain in Health and Disease: Potential Role of Autonomic Regulation and Epigenetic Mechanisms.

Nov 30, 2020

Oxidative stress can be induced by various stimuli and altered in certain conditions, including exercise and pain. Although many studies have investigated oxidative stress in relation to either exerci...

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treating Chronic Pain A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Nov 30, 2020

Chronic pain is a significant public health problem with emotional and disabling factors, which may not completely respond to current medical treatments such as opioids. The systematic review and meta...

Induction of remission in female rheumatoid arthritis patients is associated with stabilization of myocardial abnormalities: a prospective cardiac magnetic resonance follow-up study.

Nov 30, 2020

: To study whether female patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have myocardial abnormalities and whether progression of myocardial involvement can be attenuated by disease-modifying anti-rhe...

Nocardiosis in A Patient With Pemphigus Foliaceus Treated With Rituximab.

Nov 30, 2020

Rituximab is a chimeric human/murine monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody. This agent is an effective therapeutic option in severe types of pemphigus. However, rituximab may cause opportunistic infections if...

Structure based peptide design, molecular dynamics and MM-PBSA studies for targeting C terminal dimerization of NFAT5 DNA binding domain.

Nov 30, 2020

NFAT5 as a transcription factor with an established role in osmotic stress response, has also been revealed to be active under numerous settings, including pathological conditions such as diabetic mic...

Position Paper on Post-Traumatic Headache: The Relationship Between Head Trauma, Stress Disorder, and Migraine.

Nov 30, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a major public health concern, with mild TBI (mTBI) constituting the vast majority of the injuries. Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is one of the most frequent symptoms ...

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