"These findings in total suggest an important relationship among cognitive performance, HRV, and prefrontal neural function that has important implications for both physical and mental health. Future studies are needed to determine exactly which executive functions are associated with individual differences in HRV in a wider range of situations and populations."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19424767
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Many injuries to the nervous system are followed by incomplete recovery or even increasing disability over time
Many injuries to the nervous system are followed by incomplete recovery or even increasing disability over time. Some of these long term effects are due to the loss of access to growth factors called neurotrophins that provide essential support for adult nerve cells. We recently discovered that immune responses can be triggered by injury leading to inflammation around the damaged nerve cells. Control of inflammation may therefore allow the remaining nerve cells to survive until treatments that enable them to regenerate can be developed.
http://www.neura.edu.au/health/nerve-and-spinal-cord-injury
http://www.neura.edu.au/health/nerve-and-spinal-cord-injury