Neurology Medical News about Fibromyalgia Central Nervous System Pain

Become a Member Today!
Register

Most Viewed Abstracts

1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians

2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income

3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors

4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System

5. Doctors and the DEA Free full text

Your Article Summary

See Latest Articles

(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website)

Elevated insular glutamate in fibromyalgia is associated with experimental pain
Arthritis & Rheumatism, 10/02/09

Harris RE et al. – Central pain augmentation resulting from enhanced excitatory and/or decreased inhibitory neurotransmission is a proposed mechanism underlying the pathophysiology of functional pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia (FM)...Enhanced glutamatergic neurotransmission resulting from higher concentrations of Glu within the posterior insula may play a role in the pathophysiology of FM and other central pain augmentation syndromes.

<< Previous
Critical role of nociceptor plasticity in chronic pain

Next >>
The epileptic human hippocampal cornu ammonis 2 region generates...