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====Brain scans==== Brain scans are a potential aid to help diagnose fibromyalgia.<ref name="Hackshaw2021">{{Cite journal | last = Hackshaw | first = Kevin V. | author-link = | date = Feb 2021 | title = The Search for Biomarkers in Fibromyalgia| url = https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/11/2/156|journal=Diagnostics|language=en|volume=11|issue=2 | pages = 156|doi=10.3390/diagnostics11020156|pmc=PMC7911687|pmid=33494476|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref><ref name="HashmiTrial">{{Cite web | last = Hashmi | first = Javeria | date = 2020-03-11|others=Nova Scotia Health Authority | title = Brain Imaging Study on Biomarkers for Fibromyalgia| url = https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03910010}}</ref> A small study by López-Solà et al. (2017) using a combination of [[functional magnetic resonance imaging|fMRI]] brain scans and artificial intelligence (machine learning) correctly diagnosed 95% of fibromyalgia patients.<ref name="Lopez2017" /> A number of brain imaging studies have found significant results in patients with fibromyalgia, including a [[Functional magnetic resonance imaging|fMRI]] study that found patients with FM "have measurable pain signals in their brains, from a gentle finger squeeze that barely feels unpleasant to people without the disease"<ref name="Gracely2002" /> and MR/PET imaging by Loggia et al 2015 found [[neuroinflammation]] due to [[Glial cell|glial]] activation.<ref name="Loggia2015" /> {{See also|Fibromyalgia notable studies}}
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