~~~~~~ PAIN ALERT ~ Week of Sep 10, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Biofeedback for Fibromyalgia.
A pilot study with promising results of using HRV biofeedback for fibromyalgia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17219062

Nonlinear analysis in EEG biofeedback treatment of intractable epilepsy
Complexity and approximate entropy of EEG increase after a month of SMR
uptraining and theta downtraining in 5 epileptics.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17281256

Sleep onset REM periods in obsessive compulsive disorder.
Finds evidence of REM onset differences in some OCD patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17316824

Screening people with disturbed sleep for depression.
Different sleep disturbances are associated with subtypes of depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17326500

Trail Making Test in traumatic brain injury
Trail Making Test performance was poorer in TBI patients than in schizophrenics,
suggesting a similar executive deficit.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17336493

Personality styles in patients with fibromyalgia, major depression and healthy
controls.
Evalutes disorders and the personality types that have them such as FMS for
sociotropic personality styles compared to depressotypic personality styles.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17349053

Return to productivity following traumatic brain injury
Injury severity, physical status, and psychological status are all involved in
productivity outcome after injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17364780

Daytime naps, motor memory consolidation and sleep spindles.
Motor memories are facilitated across daytime naps.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17406665

Quantitative EEG in aging and in the evolution of dementia.
EEG may be used to predict future declines associated with mild cognitive
impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17413018

Accelerated brain gray matter loss in fibromyalgia patients: premature aging of
the brain?
Fibromyalgia may reflect an acceleration of age- related changes of the brain.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17428976

Intrahemispheric reorganization of language in children with intractable
epilepsy
Anterior displacement of Broca's area was seen in some children with epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17445300

Correlation between EEG rhythms during sleep: surface versus mediotemporal EEG.
Power density is negatively correlated between delta/theta and beta frequencies
above 16 Hz during NREM sleep.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17471077

No neurochemical evidence for brain injury caused by heading in soccer.
Repeated low severity head impacts were not associated with neurochemical signs
of brain injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17496068

Tensor magnetic resonance imaging in mild TBI
MVA to single case showed frontal dysfunction with missing corpus callosum
fibers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17549335

Psychiatric risk factors for traumatic brain injury.
Mood, anxiety, and conduct disorders increased risk of head injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17577707

Neuropsychology of migraine.
Migraine sufferers are at risk for developing anxiety and depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17544646

Neuroimaging on brain plasticity in recovery from stroke.
Post-stroke motor recovery is associated with activation changes in specific
brain structures.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17589415

Sleep-wake disturbances 6 months after traumatic brain injury: a prospective
study.
Sleep-wake disturbances such as daytime sleepiness and fatigue are prevalent
after TBI.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17584779

Neuropsychology of migraine.
Migraine sufferers are at risk for anxiety and depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17544646

Brain injury markers in chronic cocaine dependents.
An attempt to index brain damage caused by cocaine users in serum levels
whiffed.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17650535

Dysfunctional beliefs, stress and sleep disturbance in fibromyalgia.
Perceived stress interacts with sleep quality of patients with fibromyalgia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=17681881
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