Roland Staud

Roland Staud, MD, FACP, practices internal medicine and rheumatology and is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Florida, Gainesville Florida. His research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms of chronic pain and fatigue in musculoskeletal disorders such as ME/CFS, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and fibromyalgia.

Notable studies

 * 2004, Abnormal Pain Processing in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2004, Review article for Medscape: Fibromyalgia Pain: Do We Know the Source?
 * 2012, Review article: Abnormal endogenous pain modulation is a shared characteristic of many chronic pain conditions (Full text)
 * 2015, Sleep is associated with task-negative brain activity in fibromyalgia participants with comorbid chronic insomnia (Full text)
 * 2015, Evidence for Sensitized Fatigue Pathways in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2016, Abnormal Resting State Functional Connectivity In Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Arterial Spin-Labeling fMRI Study (Full text)
 * 2016, Abnormal Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Results of Seed and Data-Driven Analyses (Full text)
 * 2017, Muscle injections with lidocaine improve resting fatigue and pain in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Full text)
 * 2018, Static and dynamic functional connectivity in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: use of arterial spin labelling fMRI (Full text)
 * 2018, Structural brain changes versus self-report: machine-learning classification of chronic fatigue syndrome patients (Abstract)
 * 2018, Cerebral blood flow and heart rate variability predict fatigue severity in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2018, Task related cerebral blood flow changes of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: an arterial spin labeling study (Abstract)
 * 2018, AAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia (Full text)

Clinic location
2000 SW Archer Rd

Gainesville, FL 32608

352-265-4846

Talks and interviews

 * 3-5 May 2018, ME/CFS Canadian Collaborative Team Conference - Speech title: Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * Website
 * YouTube

Learn more

 * 2018, Montreal ME/CFS I: Metabolism – the Main Matter? More Exercise Issues Plus Bad Brain Motor?