Research

Pain Mechanisms for New Onset and Chronic HIV Distal Neuropathic Pain

Agency: NIH/NINDS
Agency Award Number: K23NS079311

The translational research objective of this application is to use multi-modal magnetic resonance (MR) neuroimaging and clinical research characterization of HIV peripheral neuropathy, in concert with standardized pain, neuropsychiatric, and neuromedical assessment, to better understand central and peripheral mechanisms of HIV DNP for 3 clinical research groups which all have 2 or more signs of peripheral neuropathy but differ in presence and duration of Distal Neuropathic Pain.