Science news articles about 'fibromyalgia patients'

... of sleep fragmentation seem to correlate—at least in this study—with levels of pain reported by fibromyalgia patients. Burns, who has a PhD in electrical engineering, finds that more and more of his ...

... responses to pain. In the past, some researchers have thought that the pain reported by fibromyalgia patients was the result of depression rather than symptoms of a disorder. "Interestingly, we ...

Widespread body pain in fibromyalgia patients is associated with specific brain metabolite abnormalities, according to new research.

... because of the few treatment options available for fibromyalgia patients, its low cost of about $40 a month ... new treatments that work particularly well for fibromyalgia go a long way toward validating ...

Previous studies have shown that fibromyalgia is associated with reductions in grey matter in parts of the brain, but the exact cause is not known. Using sophisticated brain imaging techniques, ...