Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate — and, in theory, block — pain signals in the body and spinal cord before those signals reach the brain.
Dr. Jose Moron-Concepcion has recently joined the department as Associate Professor of Anesthesiology. His primary appointment is in the Washington University Pain Center in the basic research section.
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy [DPN] is caused by diabetes-related damage to the nerves (neuropathy), mainly in the feet, and sometimes in the legs and the hands. It affects more than 3 million Americans and is leading cause of nerve damage-associated pain (neuropathic pain) worldwide. Currently approved drugs such as gabapentin, pregabalin, and duloxetine provide pain relief […]
The Gold Standard: Studies of Human Nociceptors Taking Off Thanks to organ donors, researchers are finding ways to access coveted cells by Stephani Sutherland on 19 Dec 2014 In the wake of failed clinical trials based on animal models, the pain field is facing what seems to be an inescapable conclusion: the success of new […]
Shingles (herpes zoster), an often a very painful disease, is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you have chickenpox, the virus remains inactive in certain nerves of your body. If the virus becomes active again when you are an adult, you get shingles. Symptoms For some people the nerve pain persists well […]
Durga P. (DP) Mohapatra, PhD has joined the faculty of the Department of Anesthesiology as an Associate Professor in the Washington University Pain Center. DP joins us from the University of Iowa where he was on faculty for seven years. The major research focus of Dr. Mohapatra’s laboratory is to define the precise tumor-nerve signaling […]
Despite the abuse potential of opioid drugs, they have long been the best option for patients suffering from severe pain. The drugs interact with receptors on brain cells to tamp down the body’s pain response. But now, neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way to activate opioid receptors […]
Robert W. Gereau IV, PhD, has been named the Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.