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Neuropathy News
August 3, 2023

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Scrambler Therapy May Offer Lasting Relief for Chronic Pain, Review Paper Suggests

Pain experts suggest that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment, can yield significant relief for approximately 80% -- 90% of patients with chronic pain, and it may be more effective than another noninvasive therapy: transcutaneous ...

Gene Therapy Treats Chronic Pain by Dialing Down Sodium

Scientists identified the region where a protein regulates sodium ion channels, inserting the channel's genetic material into a virus to alleviate pain in cell and animal ...

Researchers Use the Antidepressant Tianeptine to Manage Chronic Pain

Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition estimated to affect as much as 10% of the global population. It results from a damaged or malfunctioning nervous system, stemming from diseases like diabetes, alcoholism, strokes, Parkinson's and other causes like spinal nerve compression, radiation and ...

Body's Immune Response May Offer Alternative Approach to Neuropathic Pain Therapies

In the midst of a global opioid epidemic, a team of scientists is exploring natural killer (NK) cells as an alternative treatment for neuropathic pain. Researchers gather existing evidence for the impact of NK cells in pain, pointing to their ...
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Supplementation With Amino Acid Serine Eases Neuropathy in Diabetic Mice

The study adds to growing evidence that some often-underappreciated, 'non-essential' amino acids play important roles in the nervous system. The findings may provide a new way to identify ...

Neuroscientists Identify a Small Molecule That Restores Visual Function After Optic Nerve Injury

Traumatic injury to the brain, spinal cord and optic nerve in the central nervous system (CNS) are the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide. CNS injuries often ...

Treating Gut Pain Via a Nobel Prize-Winning Receptor

Targeting a receptor responsible for our sense of touch and temperature, which researchers have now found to be present in our colon, could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated ...

Molecular Hydrogen as a New Strategy for the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Researchers demonstrate in animal models that water enriched with hydrogen molecules (H2) improves the symptomatology of neuropathic pain and related emotional ...

Existing Drug Could Reduce Side Effects of Popular Cancer Treatment

Researchers found an existing drug may help decrease side effects of cisplatin, a widely used cancer treatment that was discovered in ...

High-Fat Diet Can Provoke Pain Sensitivity Without Obesity, Diabetes

A new study in mice suggests that a short-term exposure to a high-fat diet may be linked to pain sensations even in the absence of a prior injury or a preexisting condition like obesity or diabetes. ...

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Previously Unknown Ability of the Autonomic Nervous System Discovered

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also ...

Chronic Pain Associated With Poor Health -- And COVID-19 Infection -- Decades Later

People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental health outcomes and joblessness in their 50s and 60s, according to a new ...

New Strategy Shows Potential to Block Nerve Loss in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Two new studies support development of a broadly applicable treatment for neurodegenerative diseases that targets a molecule that serves as the central executioner in the death of axons, the wiring ...

Lipids in Blood Predict Nerve Damage Risk Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Multiple lipid biomarkers are linked to the development of neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes, a new study finds. Participants with high scores for diabetic neuropathy had changes in lipids ...

Nerve Healing: Neighboring Cells Become Police Force -- And Could Make Tumors Benign

Scientists show that Schwann cells take over functions of immune cells in nerve healing. Similar mechanisms could prevent nerve tumors from ...

Children With Condition That Causes Temporary Facial Paralysis Can Recover Without Treatment

Most children with a condition that causes a temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles in the face recover without medication within six months, according to a new ...

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Cooling Away the Pain: Researchers Develop Bioresorbable, Implantable Device to Block Pain Signals from Peripheral Nerves

Researchers test the efficacy of a soft, bioresorbable, implantable device to block pain signals from sciatic nerves of rat ...

Old Drugs Hint at New Ways to Beat Chronic Pain

A new study points to possible new treatments for chronic pain with a surprising link to lung cancer. Findings of the research, conducted in laboratory mouse models, open up multiple therapeutic ...

Study Finds That Sound Plus Electrical Body Stimulation Has Potential to Treat Chronic Pain

A team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain's somatosensory cortex, increasing the potential for using the technique to treat chronic pain ...

Declines in Opioid Prescriptions for U.S. Patients With Cancer and Non-Cancer Pain, Study Shows

The number of privately insured adults in the United States prescribed opioid medications for cancer pain and for chronic non-cancer pain declined between 2012 and 2019, according to a new ...

Researcher Develops Algorithm to Track Mental States Through the Skin

A biomedical engineer has developed a way to measure mental activity using electrodermal activity (EDA) -- an electrical phenomenon of the skin that is influenced by brain activity related to ...

Elucidating the Molecular Targets of Eicosapentaenoic Acid: A Natural Remedy for Chronic Pain

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) -- an omega-3 fatty acid -- is known to reduce both neuropathic and inflammatory pain, but the underlying molecular targets for EPA remain unknown. Researchers have now ...

Investigational Drug Fosters Nerve Repair After Injury

Scientists have shown that a brain-penetrating candidate drug currently in development as a cancer therapy can foster regeneration of damaged nerves after spinal trauma. The announcement comes weeks ...

Opioid Prescriptions Significantly Higher for Patients With Lifelong Disabilities, Study Finds

People with two pediatric-onset neurodevelopmental disorders are prescribed opioids at a rate up to five times higher than those who do not have those conditions, a new study finds. Researchers say ...

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