A comprehensive review of the placebo effect: recent advances and current thought

DD Price, DG Finniss, F Benedetti - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Our understanding and conceptualization of the placebo effect has shifted in emphasis from
a focus on the inert content of a physical placebo agent to the overall simulation of a …

The physiology of pain mechanisms: from the periphery to the brain

S Marchand - Rheumatic disease clinics of North America, 2008 - Elsevier
This article introduces the scientific basis for the understanding of pain mechanisms and
highlights the importance of endogenous excitatory and inhibitory controls in the central …

Nociceptive behavior in animal models for peripheral neuropathy: spinal and supraspinal mechanisms

NE Saadé, SJ Jabbur - Progress in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Since the initial description by Wall [Wall, PD, 1967. The laminar organization of dorsal horn
and effects of descending impulses. J. Neurophysiol. 188, 403–423] of tonic descending …

Topical amitriptyline versus lidocaine in the treatment of neuropathic pain

KY Ho, BK Huh, WD White, CC Yeh… - The Clinical journal of …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Objective Oral amitriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant, is effective for treating neuropathic
pain. We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover study to …

Long-Term Potentiation at C-Fibre Synapses by Low-Level Presynaptic Activity in vivo

R Drdla, J Sandkühler - Molecular pain, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Inflammation, trauma or nerve injury trigger low-level activity in C-fibres and may cause long-
lasting hyperalgesia. Long-term potentiation (LTP) at synapses of primary afferent C-fibres is …

Elevated level of the proinflammatory chemokine, RANTES/CCL5, in the periaqueductal grey causes hyperalgesia in rats

K Benamar, EB Geller, MW Adler - European journal of pharmacology, 2008 - Elsevier
The present data provide the first in vivo evidence that the proinflammatory chemokine,
Regulated on Activation Normal T cell Expressed and Secreted (RANTES/CCL5) …

[PDF][PDF] Centrifugal control in mammalian hearing

D Robertson - Proceedings of the Australian Physiological Society, 2008 - Citeseer
Centrifual contol of many sensory systems is well established, notably in the γ motorneuron
of skeletal muscle stretch receptors. 2. Efferent (olivocochlear) innervation of the mammalian …

Basic mechanisms of pain

F Willard - Integrative pain medicine: The science and practice of …, 2008 - Springer
Pain itself occurs in the central nervous system (CNS), while the peripheral nervous system
reports on tissue damage via a mechanical event, termed nociception, characterized by the …

NK-1 receptors in the rostral ventromedial medulla contribute to hyperalgesia produced by intraplantar injection of capsaicin

C Pacharinsak, SG Khasabov, AJ Beitz, DA Simone - Pain, 2008 - Elsevier
The rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) is an area of the brainstem involved in the
descending modulation of nociception at the level of the spinal cord. Although the RVM is …

[HTML][HTML] Successful treatment of nummular headache with TENS

Z Tayeb, F Hafeez, Q Shafiq - Cephalalgia, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Discussion The term nummular headache (NH) was first coined by Pareja and colleagues in
2002 as a distinct primary headache disorder (1). NH has been proposed as a distinct type …