大脑扫描数据库旨在帮助慢性疼痛地研究.docVIP

大脑扫描数据库旨在帮助慢性疼痛的研究 Carolyn Crow is no stranger to pain. 卡洛琳·克洛对疼痛感并不陌生。 Sometimes Ill just have a background dull ache, you know, all the time. 有时我的后背会隐隐作痛,你知道,一直以来的老毛病了。 Sometimes theres cramping thats so bad that itll just kind of almost double you over in pain. 有时严重的绞痛会让你的痛苦加倍。 The pain caused by irritable bowel syndrome, chronic disease that currently has no cure. 由过敏性肠综合症,慢性疾病引发的疼痛目前并无良药。 UCLA Gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer said this disease is not the only cause of chronic pain in the body. 加州大学洛杉矶分校胃肠病学家艾默兰·梅耶尔表示这种疾病并不是身体内慢性疼痛的唯一原因。 And often patients often can only suffer. 而病人通常只能默默忍受。 One of the big things in pain research has been the failure to really come up with major breakthroughs in treatments. 疼痛研究最大的问题是一直未能真正在治疗方面取得重大突破。 It is an effort to find new treatment options, Mayer is working on a new field of study that links chronic pain to biological changes in the brain. 找到新的治疗方案需要努力,梅耶尔正在一个将慢性疼痛与大脑中的生物变化联系起来的新研究领域工作。 The Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress at UCLA serves as the main hub for the first standardized database for brain imaging connected to chronic pain. 加州大学洛杉矶分校奥本海默中心应激神经生物学研究是脑成像与慢性疼痛第一标准化数据库的主要中心。 So I think a lot of people now agree with the concept that chronic pain is a brain disease. 所以我认为很多人现在接受这一概念,即慢性疼痛是一种大脑疾病。 It may start anywhere in the body when you have acute pain, but once it becomes a chronic pain syndrome it does become a brain disease, said Mayer. 当你感到剧烈疼痛它可能在身体的任何地方已经开始,但是一旦成为慢性疼痛综合征它就成了一种大脑疾病, 梅耶尔说道。 Kirsten Tillisch, a professor in UCLAs Division of Digestive Diseases, said the database allows doctors to take a more holistic approach in chronic pain research. 加州大学洛杉矶分校消化疾病部门的柯尔斯顿·特利西教授表示系统数据库允许医生在慢性疼痛的研究上采取更全面的方法。 One of the failures of Western medicine and I think our research approaches is how we diced up the human body and how weve diced up research into these little silos that work very independently. 这是西医失败的其中一个原因而且我认为我们的研究方法是如何划分人体以及我们研究如何划分成非常独立的工作。 Mayer said Western scientists are starting t