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.

Timberline Knolls Warns Certain Eating Disorders Predict Illicit Drug Use

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"Once the brain's reward pathway is primed by the rewarding effects of repeated overeating or binge eating, the individual becomes more susceptible to getting hooked on the rewarding aspects of using illicit substances," said Kim Dennis MD, CEO and …
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Incurable Gonorrhea Arrives in North America

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In an accompanying editorial, Robert D. Kirkcaldy, M.D., M.P.H., of the Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues write that the findings of this study, of documented cephalosporin treatment …
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