Using fMRI to Treat Substance Abuse and Chronic Pain

Published January 15, 2013

Using fMRI to treat substance abuse and chronic pain – Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, will be using stimulus funds to see if real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging could be used to help relieve the agony that people experience as they try to free themselves of substance abuse. Now, thanks to the national economic stimulus program, Mackey will receive 1559 over the next two years to expand upon his earlier work, using fMRI to register how blood flow to the brain may change under different circumstances.

Velocity Pharmaceutical Development Announces Clinical Development …

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15, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC (VPD) today announced the signing of a Licensing Agreement to pursue a drug development program utilizing EuMederis Pharmaceuticals' EuPort™ technology for optimizing the … quickly …
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Echo Therapeutics to Present at the Noble Financial Capital Markets' Ninth …

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Echo is also developing its needle-free skin preparation component of Symphony, the Prelude® SkinPrep System, as a platform technology to enhance drug delivery of topical pharmaceuticals. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements …
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Missouri …

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“Doctor shoppers” – those who claim to have a condition amenable to treatment by prescription painkillers and who go from one doctor's office to the next seeking these drugs – are numerous in Missouri. They are so common that a fellow physician told me …
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