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Stephen Waxman, the Glossary

Stephen George Waxman (born 1945) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist.^[1]

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Action potential

An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell rapidly rises and falls.

Alan Hodgkin

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a private medical school in New York City.

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American Academy of Neurology

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is a professional society representing over 40,000 neurologists and neuroscientists.

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American Neurological Association

The American Neurological Association (ANA) is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences; and to expanding both our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and our ability to treat them.

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Amputation

Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.

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Analgesic

An analgesic drug, also called simply an analgesic, antalgic, pain reliever, or painkiller, is any member of the group of drugs used for pain management.

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Andrew Huxley

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist.

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Association of British Neurologists

The Association of British Neurologists is a professional organisation founded in 1932 and expanded to include overseas membership in 1937.

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Axon

An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body.

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Boston City Hospital

The Boston City Hospital (1864–1996), in Boston, Massachusetts, was a public hospital located in the South End.

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Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

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Dana Foundation

The Dana Foundation (Charles A. Dana Foundation) is a private philanthropic organization based in New York dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society by supporting cross-disciplinary intersections such as neuroscience and ethics, law, policy, humanities, and arts.

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Editor-in-chief

An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Heart

The heart is a muscular organ found in most animals.

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Julius Axelrod

Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an American biochemist. Stephen Waxman and Julius Axelrod are American neuroscientists.

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Maastricht University

Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; Universiteit Maastricht) is a public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

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Myelin

Myelin is a lipid-rich material that surrounds nerve cell axons (the nervous system's electrical wires) to insulate them and increase the rate at which electrical impulses (called action potentials) pass along the axon.

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National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known as the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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National Multiple Sclerosis Society

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1946.

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Nav1.8

Nav1.8 is a sodium ion channel subtype that in humans is encoded by the SCN10A gene.

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Nav1.9

Sodium channel, voltage-gated, type XI, alpha subunit also known as SCN11A or Nav1.9 is a voltage-gated sodium ion channel protein which is encoded by the SCN11A gene on chromosome 3 in humans.

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Nerve

A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system.

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Nervous system

In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.

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Neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Neuroscientist

A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial cells and especially their behavioral, biological, and psychological aspect in health and disease.

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Pain

Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli.

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Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics, often abbreviated "PGx," is the study of the role of the genome in drug response.

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Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.

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Procaine

Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group.

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Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society based at 1 Wimpole Street, London, UK.

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Society for Neuroscience

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system.

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Sodium channel

Sodium channels are integral membrane proteins that form ion channels, conducting sodium ions (Na+) through a cell's membrane.

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Sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 9

Sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 9 (also Nav1.7) is a sodium ion channel that in humans is encoded by the SCN9A gene.

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Spinal cord injury

A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanford University School of Medicine

The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States.

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The Neuroscientist

The Neuroscientist is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Neurology and Neuroscience.

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The Physiological Society

The Physiological Society, founded in 1876, is a learned society for physiologists in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing lifelong healthcare services to eligible military Veterans at the 170 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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VA Palo Alto Health Care System

The VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) is a United States Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare group located in California that consists of three inpatient facilities (VA Palo Alto Hospital, Menlo Park VA Hospital, and Livermore VA Hospital), plus seven outpatient clinics in San Jose, Capitola, Monterey, Stockton, Modesto, Sonora, and Fremont.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Waxman

Also known as SG Waxman, Stephen G Waxman, Stephen G. Waxman.

, University College London, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University.

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