The role of sleep in pain and fibromyalgia

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 513-520

  Choy, Ernest H S ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; OXYBATE SODIUM; SEROTONIN;

ALLODYNIA; ALPHA RHYTHM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MOOD DISORDER; MYALGIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PAIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAKEFULNESS; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CHRONIC PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS;

EID: 84940595009     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2015.56     Document Type: Review

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