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Fibromyalgia 1993 References

5. AUTHOR Bennett-R-M.

INSTITUTION Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.

TITLE Fibromyalgia and the facts. Sense or nonsense.

SOURCE Rheum-Dis-Clin-North-Am 1993 Feb, VOL: 19 (1), P: 45-59, ISSN: 0889-857X 91 Refs.

ABSTRACT

A recent flurry of important studies has provided critical new information that is relevant to the contemporary understanding of the fibromyalgia syndrome. The concept that these patients represent solely a form of masked depression or a distinctive syndrome of somatization is not supported by the current facts. Rather it would appear that a characteristic peripheral nociceptive component is modulated by an interplay of complex central factors. A disruption of the neuroendocrine axis controlling growth hormone production may be the link between disturbed sleep and muscle pain, as growth hormone is produced predominantly during stage four sleep. A paradigm to link some of these newer findings is presented. Author.

5. AUTHOR	Bennett-R-M.
INSTITUTION	Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.
TITLE	Fibromyalgia and the facts. Sense or nonsense.
SOURCE	Rheum-Dis-Clin-North-Am 1993 Feb, VOL: 19 (1), P: 45-59, ISSN: 0889-857X 91 Refs.