• DOI:10.1177/1073858407312521
Corpus ID: 16654849

Fibromyalgia: A Disorder of the Brain?

@article{Schweinhardt2008FibromyalgiaAD,
  title={Fibromyalgia: A Disorder of the Brain?},
  author={P. Schweinhardt and K. Sauro and M. Bushnell},
  journal={The Neuroscientist},
  year={2008},
  volume={14},
  pages={415 - 421}
}

P. Schweinhardt, K. Sauro, M. Bushnell

Published 2008

Psychology, Medicine

The Neuroscientist

This article presents evidence that fibromyalgia patients have alterations in CNS anatomy, physiology, and chemistry that potentially contribute to the symptoms experienced by these patients. There is substantial psychophysical evidence that fibromyalgia patients perceive pain and other noxious stimuli differently than healthy individuals and that normal pain modulatory systems, such as diffuse noxious inhibitory control mechanisms, are compromised in fibromyalgia. Furthermore, functional brain… CONTINUE READING

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