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Papers: 8 Feb 2020 - 14 Feb 2020
Human Studies
2020 07
Arthritis Rheumatol
72
7
While much brain research on fibromyalgia (FM) focuses on the study of hyper-responsiveness to painful stimuli, some studies suggest that the increased pain-related brain activity often reported in FM studies may be in part explained by stronger responses to salient aspects of the stimulation rather than, or in addition to, its painfulness. We thus hypothesized that FM patients would demonstrate elevated brain responses to both pain onset and offset, two salient sensory events of opposing valences.