Purpose Although neurofeedback has been used as one of the complementary and alternative medicine approaches, many EEG characteristics are still unknown. In order to develop a reliable protocol, it is necessary to establish a quantitative EEG normative database of the interested study group. Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI) scores and 9 temperament dimensions, including activity level, pre...

Exercise is a low-cost intervention that promotes health and contributes to the maintenance of the quality of life. The present study was designed to investigate the influence of different resistance exercise protocols on the nociceptive threshold of rats. Female Wistar rats were used to perform exercises in a weight-lifting exercise model. The following groups were examined (N = 6 per group): ...

This study examined the effect of emotion on opiate withdrawal induced hyperalgesia to determine whether emotional states modulate the magnitude of hyperalgesia. One hundred Hispanic men were recruited into one of three groups: heroin withdrawal, long-term heroin abstinence, and control. Participants were presented with pictures to induce neutral, positive, and negative emotional states. Affect...

BACKGROUND Studies on postoperative pain examine the etiology of incisional pain with the goal to develop new treatments for patients' pain after surgery. The current study examined the analgesic effects of a recently developed transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) antagonist, AMG0347, on incisional pain in rats. Doses of morphine lower than those used in most rodent studies were als...

purpose the purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of listening to music during warm-up on short-term supramaximal performances during the 30-s wingate test in highly trained athletes. methods twelve young male athletes (20.6±1.8 yrs, 177±4.4 cm and 72.3±5.3 kg) underwent two wingate tests in separate sessions with a recovery period of 48 h in-between, either after a 10 min of ...

INTRODUCTION This study was designed to determine the short-term effect of acetyl-l-carnitine (ALC) on symptoms of withdrawal in opiate-dependent subjects and animals and, in particular, on pain, given the efficacy of ALC in other typologies of pain. The study consists of 2 branches: a clinical study and a preclinical one, both with a randomized placebo-controlled design. METHODS Thirty subje...

BACKGROUND Nerve injury sometimes leads to chronic neuropathic pain associated with neuroinflammation in the nervous system. In the case of chronic neuropathic pain, the inflammatory and algesic mediators become predominant and result in pain hypersensitivity following nervous system damage. It is well known that urinary trypsin inhibitor (ulinastatin, UTI) has an anti-inflammatory activity. Re...

A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood by lay and professional audiences and correctly conforms to societal expectations of parents in regard to their children. English law contains a harm threshold which mediates the use of the best i...

background: herbal medical compounds and their major constituent have been used in the management and treatment of opioid withdrawal syndrome and pain. this study was carried out to clarify the effect of curcumin, the major compound of turmeric, on morphine withdrawal syndrome in mouse model and its possible mechanisms of pain relieving activity by assessing in writhing test as a model of visce...