The German
neuropathic pain research association
(DFNS) is building a network
between important institutions,
scientific authorities and medicinal
disciplines. The combined scientific
backgrounds as well as the combined
clinical know how will lead
to a better understanding of
pathophysiological mechanisms
and improvement in the treatment
of neuropathic pain. The main
goals are to hinder the development
of chronic neuropathic pain
with early diagnostic and adequate
therapeutic treatment and to
cure established chronic neuropathic
pain using combinations of different
therapies. Lesions or dysfunction’s
of the central and peripheral
nervous systems are the cause
of neurophatic pain.
The development of a patient
databank with different neurophatic
pain disorders is a major task
of the DFNS. This databank should
include exact quantitative sensible
changes as well as physiological
backgrounds. The DFNS will additionally
investigate mechanisms involved
in the manifestation and maintenance
of the different neurophatic
pain disorders and will analyze
efficiencies of novel and well
established therapies.
The “pharmazentrum frankfurt”
(Prof. Dr. G. Geißlinger)
is one of 18 German centers
involved in the DFNS, carrying
out the project ”Idiopathische
Trigeminusneuralgie and trigeminaler
pain: Pathophysiologie, mechanistically
orientated Investigation and
treatment“.
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