- Analyze the concept of central pain processing and the consequences of dysfunction of descending inhibition.
- Associate FM with trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, sleep disorder and pain processing disorders with emphasis on limbic system dysfunction, aberrant stress physiology, and ultimate failure of descending anti-nociception.
- Assess the difference between regionalized somatic pain and true central allodynia
- Describe the accurate differential diagnosis of patients presenting with suspicion of FMS
- Identify common subsets of clinical disorders that may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of FMS (i.e., “pseudo” FMS)
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