Video: Every Case Tells a Story| Webinar: ACR/CHEST ILD Guidelines in Practice

An official publication of the ACR and the ARP serving rheumatologists and rheumatology professionals

fMRI Can Help Diagnose Fibromyalgia

David C. Holzman  |  Issue: March 2017  |  

In previous studies, they showed that “the connectivity between the Default Mode Network and the insula correlates so well with the level of pain a patient feels that “it’s coming close to being a biomarker,” said Dr. Harris’s coauthor and University of Michigan colleague, Daniel J. Clauw, MD, referring to a different study by this group.2

References

  1. Napadow V, LaCount L, Park K, et al. Intrinsic brain connectivity in fibromyalgia is associated with chronic pain intensity. Arthritis Rheum. 2010 Aug;62(8):2545–2555.
  2. Loggia ML, Kim J, Gollub RL, et al. Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study. Pain. 2013 Jan;154(1):24–33.

Related Articles

    Turn Down the Pain Volume

    Fibromyalgia’s evolution from discrete entity to prototypical central pain syndrome

    Revising Fibromyalgia: One Year Later

    The 2010 ACR fibromyalgia criteria capture the broader clinical picture and help ensure more appropriate diagnosis and management by primary care