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Parakulam S Thomas, M.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology
4702 University Hospital
Upstate Medical University
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
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| Education and Clinical Training
M.D.: 1972, Gandhi Nagar Medical College, India
Residency: 1980, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center
Clinical Specialty
Anesthesiology, Certified: 1984
Chronic Pain Management, Certified: 1994
Clinical Department/Section Affiliations
Director, Anesthesiology/Pain Treatment
Clinical Interests Reflex sympathetic dystrophy; low back pain
Research Program and Department Affiliations
Anesthesiology
Research Interests Low Back Pain; Discogenic Disease; Spinal Stenosis; Lumbar Radiculopathy; Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy; Myofascial Pain Syndrome; Past Laminectomy Syndrome; Headaches; Facet disease; Fibromyalgia
Research Abstract
Selected References
B.R. Krauss, A. Barbar, P.S. Thomas, A.V. Apkarian, Performance on a Decision-Making Task in Sympathetically Mediated Chronic Pain (RSD CRPS I) Patients: Evidence for Cognitive Impairment. 9th World Congress on Pain, August 22-27, 1999, Vienna, Austria
Willoughby PH, Thomas PS, Kamani V, Joy S. Epidural Blood Patch Performed on a 23 Month Old Male: A Case Report. 53rd Post Graduate Assembly, New York, New York, December 1999.
Igor D. Grachev, TS Ramachandran, Thomas, PS, NM Szeverenyi, BF Fredrickson: Association between dorsolateral prefrontal N-acetyl aspartate and depression in chronic back pain: An in vivo evidence for overlapping circuitries in the brain, Submitted for publication in Journal of Neural Transmission, January 18, 2002.
Thomas PS, Apkarian AV, Krauss BR, Szeverenyi NM: Differential effects of blocking chronic RSD pain on frontal and parietal cortical activations: an MRI study. Soc. Neurosci, Abstract. 21 (1995)
Thomas PS, Krauss BR, Apkarian AV, Szeverenyi NM: Sympathetically maintained chronic pain is a hyperfrontal condition. Soc. Neurosci Abst. 23 (1997) Publications - link to PubMed
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This profile was last updated on 09/06/2007
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