Motor cortex tRNS improves pain, affective and cognitive impairment in patients with fibromyalgia: Preliminary results of a randomised sham-controlled trial

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2017, Pages 100-105

  Curatolo, Massimiliano ^a   La Bianca, Giuseppe ^a   Cosentino, Giuseppe ^a   Baschi, Roberta ^a   Salemi, Giuseppe ^a   Talotta, Rossella ^b   Romano, Marcello ^c   Triolo, Giovanni ^a   De Tommaso, Marina ^d   Fierro, Brigida ^a   Brighina, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Pediatria II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective impairment; Cognitive impairment; Fibromyalgia; Pain; Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS)

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FAS VERBAL FLUENCY TEST; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; FORWARD AND BACKWARD DIGIT SPAN TEST; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIN; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; TRAIL MAKING TEST; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 85026389973     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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