Anger amplifies clinical pain in women with and without fibromyalgia

Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Utrecht University who studied the effect of negative emotions on pain perception in women with and without fibromyalgia found that anger and sadness amplified pain equally in both groups. Full findings are now online and will publish in the October print issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

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