Treating Functional Abdominal Pain
9% of children suffer from a condition known as functional abdominal pain. Dr. John Campo at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is looking for ways to treat this unique and often misunderstood condition. Possible treatments being explored, include cognitive behavioral therapy and medications, like Citalopram, which control serotonin levels.
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Bradley Voytek being hooded by Robert T. Knight with text read by John Ngai. University of California, Berkeley Helen Wills Neuroscience Ph.D. graduation, 2010 May 21. Text about my work: “Brad studied how the brain recovers from damage. In electrophysiological experiments in patients with frontal cortex or basal ganglia damage Brad showed that the basal ganglia plays a global gatekeeper role for sensory input to the cortex. Conversely, the frontal cortex modulates the cognitive processing of sensory inputs. He then showed that the intact frontal cortex assumes control for the damaged frontal cortex. Remarkably, this control operates in a sub-second basis as a function of cognitive demand. His work challenges current dogma of a fixed model of recovery of function and has major implications for the field of neuroplasticity.”
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Categories: Cognitive Function Tags: Abdominal, Functional, pain, treating
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