Cognitive deficits in fibromyalgia syndrome are associated with pain responses to low intensity pressure stimulation.

Carmen M Galvez-SánchezCristina Muñoz Ladrón de GuevaraCasandra Isabel Montoro AguilarMaría José Fernández-SerranoStefan DuschekGustavo A Reyes Del Paso

Published in: PloS one (2018)

It may be concluded that pain experience during somatosensory stimulation of low intensity is more closely related to attention, memory and executive functions in FMS than the traditional measures of pain threshold and pain tolerance. Considering that pain responses to low intensity stimulation reflect the hyperalgesia and allodynia phenomena characterizing FMS, it may be hypothesized that central nervous pain sensitization is involved in cognitive impairments in the disorder.

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