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Brain Inflammation Imaged For First Time In Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Reports
Saturday 13 October 2018
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Brain Inflammation Imaged for First Time in Fibromyalgia Patients, Study Reports
Combining two imaging techniques allowed researchers, for the first time, to visualize widespread inflammation, specifically mediated via glial cells, in the brains of fibromyalgia (FM) patients.
“Finding objective neurochemical changes in the brains of patients with fibromyalgia should help reduce the persistent stigma that many patients face, often being told their symptoms are imaginary and there’s nothing really wrong with them,” Marco Loggia, PhD, a researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital-based Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the study’s co-lead author, said in a press release.
“We don’t have good treatment options for fibromyalgia, so identifying a potential treatment target could lead to the development of innovative, more effective therapies,” he said.
Findings were published in the study, “Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia – A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation,” in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
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