Fibromyalgia notable studies

Notable studies

 * 2002, Fibromyalgia Pain Isn't All In Patient's Heads, New Brain Study Finds


 * 2004, A link between irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia may be related to findings on lactulose breath testing


 * 2012, Dysfunctional endogenous analgesia during exercise in patients with chronic pain: To exercise or not to exercise?


 * 2015, Some oxidative and antioxidative parameters and their relationship with clinical symptoms in women with fibromyalgia syndrome


 * 2015, Understanding the Association of Fatigue With Other Symptoms of Fibromyalgia: Development of a Cluster Model


 * 2015, Sleep is associated with task-negative brain activity in fibromyalgia participants with comorbid chronic insomnia


 * 2015, Cognitive performance is related to central sensitization in patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders and fibromyalgia: a case-control study


 * 2015, Fibromyalgia: A search for markers and their evaluation throughout a treatment


 * 2015, Normalization of aberrant resting state functional connectivity in fibromyalgia patients following a three-month physical exercise therapy


 * 2015, Researchers identify potential sleep-related treatment targets for fibromyalgia


 * 2015, Fibromyalgia has central nervous system origins


 * 2015, The Iceberg Nature of Fibromyalgia Burden: The Clinical and Economic Aspects


 * 2015, The effects of aquatic, isometric strength-stretching and aerobic exercise on physical and psychological parameters of female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome


 * 2016, Fibromyalgia syndrome: metabolic and autophagic processes in intermittent cold stress mice.


 * 2016, Fibromyalgia Is Correlated with Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thinning




 * 2016, The prevalence of severe fatigue in rheumatic diseases: an international study.


 * 2016, Characteristics of Disturbed Sleep in Patients With Fibromyalgia Compared With Insomnia or With Pain-Free Volunteers


 * 2016, Is Efficacy of Milnacipran in Fibromyalgia Predictable? A Data Mining Analysis of Baseline and Outcome Variables.


 * 2017, The degree of cardiac baroreflex involvement during active standing is associated with the quality of life in fibromyalgia patients. (Orthostatic Intollerance)


 * 2017, Evidence of both systemic inflammation and neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia patients, as assessed by a multiplex protein panel applied to the cerebrospinal fluid and to plasma


 * 2017, Towards a neurophysiological signature for fibromyalgia.


 * 2018, A Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Ferric Carboxymaltose in Iron-Deficient Patients with Fibromyalgia.


 * 2018, SNPs in inflammatory genes CCL11, CCL4 and MEFV in a fibromyalgia family study

Grant awards and current research

 * Oct 2016, Chronic pain researchers to expand work with $7.5M award from NIH
 * Jun 2018, The Bateman Horne Center will be an All of Us recruitment center for people living with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. All of Us is a ten year Precision Medicine Initiative project that has been funded $1.5 Billion to recruit one million patients for its bio-bank. The idea is to research all diseases, from the most common to the most rare while taking into account lifestyle, environment, and biology.

Psychiatric paradigm

 * 2015, Brain "fog," inflammation and obesity: key aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders improved by luteolin.


 * 2016, Explaining unexplained pain to fibromyalgia patients: finding a narrative that is acceptable to patients and provides a rationale for evidence-based interventions


 * 2016, Fibromyalgia: A Short Commentary iMedPub Journals - Journal of Headache & Pain Management - Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

 * 2015, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Can Diminish Fibromyalgia Syndrome


 * Noted in this News Medical article about the research all the women had concussions.


 * 2016, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for treating Fibromyalgia: An update