Is the Entire Autonomic Nervous System Messed Up in Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (FM) researchers recently pointed an arrow at a rarely studied part of the brain – the brainstem – and proposed that a “convergence of autonomic regulation and pain modulation systems” had occurred in FM. The Brainstem – Is...
The Brainstem – Is it THE Pain Conductor in Fibromyalgia?
The received wisdom about the pain in fibromyalgia (FM) is that it’s being produced in the central nervous system. That idea was amplified very early in “Altered Pain in the Brainstem and Spinal Cord of Fibromyalgia Patients During the Anticipation and...
Healing Chronic Pain? An Update on the NIH’s $2 Billion HEAL Project to End Chronic Pain
“If you think research is expensive, try disease.”—Mary Lasker (NIGMS, 2011) If any medical field needs help, it’s chronic pain. It’s remarkable, indeed, that the treatment options for a field that affects so many and has such huge economic and...
A Herpesvirus for Fibromyalgia? Active Herpes Simplex Virus Found in FM Patients’ Guts
A surprising herpesvirus virus shows up in fibromyalgia patients’ guts However similar the symptom presentations of fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are, their research pathways have been fairly distinct, with FM researchers focusing more...
Immune Cells May Be Killing the Small Nerve Fibers in Fibromyalgia
Study suggests natural killer cells are whacking the small nerve fibers in fibromyalgia After decades of surveying chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) literature, the study, “Unbiased immune profiling reveals a natural killer cell-peripheral...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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