Category Archives: Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Feeling your pain

Tom Finger on molecular signaling between neurons and microglia.

We met Tom Finger from the University of Colorado Medical School at the SfN meeting in November last year. Continue reading

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The awakening

A simple bedside technology supports findings that up to 20% of vegetative state patients have been misdiagnosed.

Adrian Owen’s pioneering research into the consciousness of physically unresponsive patients has captured widespread media attention in recent years, including from Jerome Groopman, who described Owen’s work in a 2007 New Yorker article. Continue reading

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You’re putting it on: pain perception

A new study investigates how the observer’s perception of a patient’s character influences their assessment of the patient’s pain.

Pain is a tricky thing to evaluate. Continue reading

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