Dr. Marvin J Hoffert MD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
1011 Schaub Dr Suite 201 Raleigh NC, 27606About
Dr. Marvin Hoffert practices Pain Medicine in Raleigh, NC. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Hoffert serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1974
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The neurophysiology of pain.
- Presynaptic inhibition of primary afferents.
- Demonstration of thyrotropin-releasing hormone immunoreactivity in neurons of the mouse spinal dorsal horn.
- Clinical research: efficacy studies v basic research.
- Microneurography/microstimulation.
- Intraspinal connections of dorsal column postsynaptic neurons in the cat--a
- Abnormal and collateral innervations of sympathetic and peripheral sensory fields associated with a case of causalgia.
- Immunocytochemical identification of serotonin axonal contacts on characterized neurons in laminae I and II of the cat dorsal horn.
- Serotoninergic axonal contacts on identified cat spinal dorsal horn neurons and their correlation with nucleus raphe magnus stimulation.
- Extra- and intracellular recordings from dorsal column postsynaptic spinomedullary neurons in the cat.
- The morphology of dorsal column postsynaptic spinomedullary neurons in the cat.
- Spinal cord layer I neurons with axon collaterals that generate local arbors.
- Polypharmacy in a headache centre population.
- Treatment of migraine: a new era.
- Spontaneous activity of cat spinal ganglion neurons in vivo.
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