Pain for Philosophers

The New York Times September 10, 2007Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — ...

In his recent Why feeling more pain may be better for you , Tom Stafford reminds us of the classic Kahneman study which yielded both the Pe...

For those in Southern California….. DH SoCal Research Slam Location: California State University, Northridge Date: May 4, 2013 Deadline: Apr...

Respiratory depression following oral tramadol in a patient with impaired renal function S. K. Barnung * , M. Treschow and F. M. Borgbjerg...

ScienceDirect - Pain : The impact of chronic pain in children and adolescents: Development and initial validation of a child and parent v...

Pain : Catastrophizing and perceived partner responses to pain : "Catastrophizing and perceived partner responses to pain Jennifer L....

Dear SoCal friends, Causalgia (aka CRPS II or RSD) should be very high on your list of things that you do not want. If you're the sort w...

Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 1 Issue 3 Page 280-282, September 2000 (Article Abstract Volume 1 Issue 3 Page 280-282, Septe...

Tierney on drugs http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/pain/

Here's a nice post on some of the latest research on nocebo effects --the placebo's evil twin. Are Warnings About the Side Effects o...

What Percentage of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Patients Exposed to Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy Develop Abuse/Addiction and/or Aberran...

I'm not yet over losing my ranking as the internet's number one source for all things sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. So, in a futi...

ScienceDirect - Pain : Nicotine differentially activates inhibitory and excitatory neurons in the dorsal spinal cord : Matilde Cordero-Era...

Viceland - STUFF LIKE THAT - PART 2 - TORTURED ARTIST - I Will Always See Pol Pot's Face

ScienceDaily (Jun. 4, 1997) — For almost 20 years, researchers have been examining a centuries-old phenomenon -- women helping women through...

Arthritis sucks. Rheumatoid Arthritis is especially sucky. Here's a gentle description of what happened to my grandmother from the Arthr...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/21/cia_sere/print.html The CIA's torture teachers Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a se...

Marijuana And the Brain by John Gettman High Times, March, 1995 In 1970, marijuana was placed on Schedule 1 of the Drug Enforcement Admi...

I was really taken aback by this explanation of what cancer survival really means. I know that some of you are fighting cancer* or have some...

Neurochemistry Post-Docs! Looking to publish interesting and important papers on the neurochemistry of reward but don't know what to stu...

Whoa. Check out this abstract an annual International Headache Congress paper. Cluster headache attack cessation and remission extension of...

Some of the interesting features of the placebo effect:

Christian Sinclair over at Pallimed does some sleuthing into the FDA's rationale for pulling propoxyphene and comes away concerned: He ...

Just discovered the National Library of Medicine's archive of images. Pretty neat (in a depressing sort of way). Here's the main sit...

By now I'm sure you've all heard the exciting news: Placebos work even if the patients know that they are taking placebos! At least ...

This cautionary tale from Overheard in New York provides me an opportunity to shamelessly boost my Google rating for sphenopalatine ganglion...

In short, this suggests that menstrual cramps not only suck, they make other pains that happen to be around worse. Brain morphological chang...

I managed to badly break my thumb during judo last week. I'm having surgery to repair it this Friday. After spending all this time learn...