http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers in France has found what they call a "signal" that tells a person when to rest while engaging in work, and then when to resume once rested. The team, as they describe in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used fMRI scans on a group of volunteers to study a part of the brain normally associated with pain perception and found what amounts to a signal calling for the conscious mind to take a break. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-clues-brain-rest.html Neuroscience Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:20:01 EST news278063754 Scientists in Australia and Austria have described a "network map" of genes involved in pain perception. The work, published in the journal PLOS Genetics should help identify new analgesic drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-valuable-tool-pain-genes-people.html Genetics Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:30:02 EST news274031875 (Medical Xpress)—A new study review published by the University of Kentucky found that music therapy can be beneficial to patients before, during and after a surgical procedure and may reduce pain and recovery time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-benefits-music-therapy-surgery-patients.html Other Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:16:34 EST news272560584 (HealthDay) -- Compared with periprostatic nerve block (PNB), pelvic plexus block (PPB), performed under Doppler ultrasound guidance, provides better pain relief for men during office-based transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy, according to research published in the August issue of The Journal of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-analgesia-pelvic-plexus-block-prostate.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:41:31 EST news262543277 Stories of athletes bravely "playing through the pain" are relatively common and support the widespread belief that they experience pain differently than non-athletes. Yet, the scientific data on pain perception in athletes has been inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory. Investigators from the University of Heidelberg have conducted a meta-analysis of available research and find that in fact, athletes can indeed tolerate a higher level of pain than normally active people. However, pain threshold, the minimum intensity at which a stimulus is perceived as painful, did not differ in athletes and normal controls. Their findings are published in the June issue of Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-higher-pain-tolerance-athletes-clues.html Medical research Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:02 EST news256407107 Thousands of Americans this year will be diagnosed with a common disorder of the jaw area called temporomandibular joint and muscle disorders (TMJD, formerly called TMJ). Because of the inherent biological complexity of TMJD, their healthcare providers will have no way to determine whether their patients will get better in time or battle chronic disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-factors-chronic-tmjd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:28:22 EST news240150491 Peter J. Snyder, Ph.D., vice president of research for Lifespan, received one of 10 Ig Nobel Prize awards during the annual ceremony last night at Harvard University. Snyder, along with his co-authors and colleagues from the University of Melbourne and Yale Medical School, were recognized for their work which found that an acute urge to void the bladder can have the same impact on impairing cognitive function as small amounts of alcohol or sleep deprivation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-bladder-full-lifespan-ig.html Medical research Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:50:01 EST news236594184