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Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: New trends and future directions

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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.

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Glass, J.M. Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: New trends and future directions. Curr Rheumatol Rep 8, 425–429 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-006-0036-0

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