Amygdala Retraining Program Improves Symptoms and Biology in Fibromyalgia
The rubber meets the road for mindfulness practices with biology. Can altering one’s thought patterns actually change one’s biology? That’s one of the questions that Spanish researchers asked in the recent study, “Mindfulness-Based Program Plus...
Wound up, Overheated and Tweaked: A Look at the Fibromyalgia Brain and Nervous System.
In “Key Milestones Contributing to the Understanding of the Mechanisms Underlying Fibromyalgia”, two Australian researchers give a fascinating overview of what they consider to be the breakthrough findings in FM. Tellingly, they quickly highlight...
Is the Brain Causing the Small Fiber Neuropathy in Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS?)
It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body – as opposed to the brain – into play....
Brain on Fire: Widespread Neuroinflammation Found in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Neuroinflammation, Fatigue and Pain Lab Stop We were having a case of déjà vu as we drove around the surprisingly large campus. Getting into the NIH to see Avindra Nath had been a nightmare. It turned out that the NIH would only allow the big van through one access...
Global Pain, Fibromyalgia and the Insula – Ground Zero for Pain and Stimuli Issues in FM?
The “Global Pain” Diseases There are two kinds of “pain” in fibromyalgia. There’s a more ordinary kind of pain – the burning, stabbing, aching, etc. usually associated with some type of injury (even though no overt physical injuries...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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