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Visceral pain means pain in the hollow organs, such as gut or bladder.

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Functional MRI (fMRI) is similar to a PET or SPECT scan, but it avoids radiation. This article includes a technical section foi the scientifically inclined, which you may pass over and still get the gist of the article as it pertains to pain imaging.

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This continues focus on the cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2. You may think of them as interchangeable with VR-1.

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Much to the relief of many, this will not be one of the brainbusting reviews of deep biochemistry. It will, hopefully, make you more self aware about your pain.

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Does our fear of pain make us worship it inadvisably? Shouldn’t we be trying to cure it instead?

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This will help in understanding the mechanisms of burning dysesthesia. As the environmentalists have taught us, increase the carbon dioxide a few percent and the earth will burn up. How about the pain system? What happens when there is a little too much ATP?

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Dr. Bryan Hains had the most signficant paper presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Pain Society.

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Definitions must precede pain activism.

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Loading of the spinal fluid with binding capable , “less than the whole” segments of a matrix protein which blocks axonal regeneration may be helpful in stopping the action of proteoglycans which have become loose canons, leading to uncecessary inflammation..

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Breakthrough technology with RNA on neurons.

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