Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a neural signature that identified fibromyalgia with 93% accuracy, according to a 72-patient study in the journal Pain (2016 Aug 31. [Epub ahead of print]).
“This neural measure for fibromyalgia is composed of three brain-related submeasures that together identify [individuals with] fibromyalgia,” said lead author Marina López-Solà, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Cognitive and Affective