Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: new trends and future directions.
Fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients often have memory and cognitive complaints. Objective cognitive testing demonstrates long-term and working memory impairments. In addition, CFS patients have slow information-processing, and FM patients have impaired control of attention, perhaps due to chronic pain. Neuroimaging studies demonstrate cerebral abnormalities and a pattern of increased neural recruitment during cognitive tasks. Future work should focus on the specific neurocognitive systems involved in cognitive dysfunction in each syndrome.
Glass
Jennifer M
JM
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research and Department of Psychiatry, 426 Thompson Street, Room 5256, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA. jglass@umich.edu
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology