Itch is a common sensory experience that is prevalent in patients with inflammatory skin
diseases, as well as in those with systemic and neuropathic conditions. In patients with …

For centuries, itch was categorized as a submodality of pain. Recent research over the last
decade has led to the realization that itch is in fact a separate and distinct, albeit closely …

Results Patients very much or extremely bothered by itching declined from 28% in 1996 to
18% in 2015. In 2012–2015, among patients nearly always or always bothered by itching …

Rationale & Objective Chronic kidney disease (CKD)-associated pruritus, generalized
itching related to CKD, affects many aspects of hemodialysis patients' lives. However …

Chronic itch is associated with increased stress, anxiety, and other mood disorders. In turn,
stress and anxiety exacerbate itch, leading to a vicious cycle that affects patient behavior …

Maintenance dialysis patients experience a high burden of physical and emotional
symptoms that directly affect their quality of life and health care utilization. In this review, we …

Multi-view matching is an important but a challenging task in view-based 3D model retrieval.
To address this challenge, we propose an original multi-modal clique graph (MCG) …

Unlike conventional itch, neuropathic itch develops in normal skin from excess peripheral
firing or dampened central inhibition of itch pathway neurons. Neuropathic itch is a symptom …

Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) is a spinal itch transmitter expressed by a small population
of dorsal horn interneurons (GRP neurons). The contribution of these neurons to spinal itch …

The claustrum is the most densely interconnected region in the human brain. Despite the
accumulating data from clinical and experimental studies, the functional role of the claustrum …