Ucla Health Receives Nih Grant To Expand Innovative Chronic Pain Therapy For Veterans

UCLA Health has received a $7.1 cardinal assistance from nan National Institutes of Health to grow investigation into a newer shape of psychotherapy that has been shown to much importantly alleviate chronic symptom among older adults compared to accepted cognitive behavioral therapy. 

The planned five-year objective proceedings will activity pinch astir 700 warfare veterans astatine 7 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs centers passim nan state to measure nan effectiveness of nan therapy, known arsenic affectional consciousness and look therapy (EAET). Developed successful nan 2010s, EAET intends to show patients that nan brain's cognition of symptom is powerfully influenced by stress-related emotions. Patients are helped to emotionally process stressful interactions, from thing arsenic mundane arsenic being trim disconnected by a driver to terrible traumas specified arsenic intersexual assault, pinch nan extremity of changing encephalon circuits dealing pinch some symptom and emotion to trim aliases destruct chronic pain. 

The proceedings will beryllium led by Dr. Brandon Yarns, adjunct professor astatine UCLA Health's Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. 

Previous investigation by Yarns recovered that astir 4 times arsenic galore veterans knowledgeable important symptom alleviation pinch EAET compared to accepted cognitive behavioral therapy (63% vs 17%). 

That study, including 126 patients, was nan first full-scale objective proceedings of EAET among older adults, older men and veterans, pinch past studies being mostly made up of younger, female participants, Yarns said. 

The caller five-year proceedings will beryllium a pragmatic proceedings to trial nan therapy's effectiveness successful real-world objective sites for imaginable wide adoption. The proceedings will standard up nan curen to 672 older veterans crossed 7 Veterans Affairs locations passim nan U.S. The first twelvemonth will beryllium utilized hole nan sites, train clinicians and question and reply veterans who will beryllium participating, pinch curen occurring successful nan pursuing 4 years.