fMRI Can Help Diagnose Fibromyalgia

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

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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.