Coordinate-based (ALE) meta-analysis of brain activation in patients with fibromyalgia
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- 作者：Mahboobeh Dehghan ; Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke ; Bettina Pfleiderer ; Simon B. Eickhoff ; Frank Petzke ; Richard E. Harris ; Pedro Montoya and Markus Burgmer
- 关键词：fibromyalgia ; pain ; descending pain modulation system ; meta-analysis ; brain imaging ; activation likelihood analysis
- 刊名：Human Brain Mapping
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：May 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：37
- 期：5
- 页码：1749-1758
- 全文大小：518K
- ISSN：1097-0193
文摘
There are an increasing number of neuroimaging studies that allow a better understanding of symptoms, neural correlates and associated conditions of fibromyalgia. However, the results of these studies are difficult to compare, as they include a heterogeneous group of patients, use different stimulation paradigms, tasks, and the statistical evaluation of neuroimaging data shows high variability. Therefore, this meta-analytic approach aimed at evaluating potential alterations in neuronal brain activity or structure related to pain processing in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients, using quantitative coordinate-based “activation likelihood estimation” (ALE) meta-analysis. 37 FMS papers met the inclusion criteria for an ALE analysis (1,264 subjects, 274 activation foci). A pooled ALE analysis of different modalities of neuroimaging and additional analyses according functional and structural changes indicated differences between FMS patients and controls in the insula, amygdala, anterior/mid cingulate cortex, superior temporal gyrus, the primary and secondary somatosensory cortex, and lingual gyrus. Our analysis showed consistent results across FMS studies with potential abnormalities especially in pain-related brain areas. Given that similar alterations have already been demonstrated in patients with other chronic pain conditions and the lack of adequate control groups of chronic pain subjects in most FMS studies, it is not clear however, whether these findings are associated with chronic pain in general or are unique features of patients with FMS. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1749–1758, 2016.