Is individual variation in rapid eye movement sleep associated with pain perception in healthy women : preliminary data?
These data are the first to demonstrate a relationship between individual variation in rapid eye movement sleep and pain-modulatory processes. The results have implications for the etiology of pain disorders and suggest that neurobiologic substrates regulating sleep may also play a role in central pain processing.
The diagnosis of Whipple's disease should be considered in the presence of a systemic granulomatosis with or without heart involvement. Early diagnosis is important because of effectiveness of antibiotic therapy.