A series of brain scans on people suffering from fibromyalgia show that they don’t manage pain as well as normal people. Patients seem to have altered brain process and this could explain why they tend to feel pain more frequently and intensely. Fibromyalgia also make these people don’t respond as well to any narcotic painkiller….
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Brain Imaging Technique Can be Used to Observe Chronic Pain Drugs
Researchers from the University of Michigan have experimented with the brain imaging technique to track the action of drugs for chronic pain treatments. The new study has been published recently in the Anesthesiology journal. The team used three different brain methods and they were able to observe how pregabalin works on patients. The drug is…