Your System Has Been Hijacked: The Neurobiology of Chronic Pain

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Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked: a report to David Sackett.

This is a confession building on a conversation with David Sackett in 2004 when I shared with him some personal adventures in evidence-based medicine (EBM), the movement that he had spearheaded. The narrative is expanded with what ensued in the subsequent 12 years. EBM has become far more recognized and adopted in many places, but not everywhere, for example, it never acquired much influence in...

The Neurobiology of Chronic Pain in Children

B.C. McClain and S. Suresh (eds.), Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0350-1_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Chronic pain arises from plastic changes in the peripheral and central nervous system. These changes are triggered and may be maintained by an insult to tissues, organs or to the nervous system itself. Becau...

Space and the vestibular system: what has been learned?

Process of Scholarship of Teaching Has Been Successful in Mashad University of Medial Sciences

Background: Medical Education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. In this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) were evaluated for the first time in this country. Methods: Data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...