Using fMRI to Treat Substance Abuse and Chronic Pain

Using fMRI to treat substance abuse and chronic pain – Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, will be using stimulus funds to see if real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging could be used to help relieve the agony that people experience as they try to free themselves of substance abuse. Now, thanks to the national economic stimulus program, Mackey will receive 1559 over the next two years to expand upon his earlier work, using fMRI to register how blood flow to the brain may change under different circumstances.

Native Hawaiians Have Bleeding Strokes at Earlier Age, Independent of Meth Use

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"Drug abuse is a huge problem here and it definitely is a cause of hemorrhagic stroke," said Kazuma Nakagawa, M.D., lead investigator and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii. "But Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are …
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Medicinal Cannabis: The Gateway to Pain Relief for Patients With Neurological …

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Sativex, an oral spray absorbed by the mucosal lining in the mouth, is a new medicine derived from an isolated cannabinoid found in marijuana developed to help with the management of spasticity related to MS. The drug is currently … Eric Voth, M.D …
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