Breathing oxygen may be the new treatment for chronic pain
February 28, 2023
By Argyro Philippidou, 3rd Year Neuroscience BSc Hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) is not a treatment you commonly or routinely hear. It actually has the potential to be an alternative therapy to any disease in which cell regeneration and decrease of inflammation are the therapeutic targets. A close person of mine has undergone HBOT for their …
The highs and lows of opioid use: learning from the north American opioid epidemic
By Ryan Duffy, 4th Year Neuroscience MSci Opioids are a class of drugs that interact with the endogenous opioid system, to either activate or deactivate its impact on bodily sensations or psychological states. Endogenous means that our body must make compounds that activate this system, and indeed they do. Endorphins is one of the major …
Psychedelic Therapy: Unlocking an Alternative Path to Treating Depression
February 15, 2023
By Ryan Duffy, 4th Year Neuroscience MSci Psychedelics are type of illicit drug that known to trigger alter states of consciousness, and the user may experience “trips”. In 1973, psychedelic substances were placed as a schedule 1 substance, meaning that the intriguing nature of psychedelics could not be explored by scientists as they were deemed …
How anxiety may impact our future health
January 21, 2021
Written by Emma Gow, 3rd Year Neuroscience BSc Anxiety is a relatively common disorder that normally affects around 5% of people in the UK [1], which appears to have increased due to the introduction of a national lockdown during the current COVID-19 pandemic [2]. These circumstances present us with the challenge of ensuring that we …
Chronic Pain Research: Are new developments driven by luck or motivation?
March 13, 2020
In Conversation with Gareth Hathway Written by María Ángeles Jiménez Sigstad As animals, we have evolved to recognise Pain before the site of injury is experiencing an actual damaging experience. Therefore, we have learned to prevent events that could seriously damage us or even cause our death. This is one of our survival mechanisms. However, …
New mechanism for the spreading of pain in inflammatory arthritis
December 17, 2018
Written by Lucy Tyler As the home of the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre, much of the research conducted at the University of Nottingham’s School of Life Sciences in the Queen’s Medical Centre, is based on chronic pain and how it can be treated more effectively. Arthritis is an umbrella term for disorders of …
