The Fibromyalgia and Central Nervous System Symposium
The Fibromyalgia and Central Nervous System Symposium was a great success. Eighteen medical professionals gathered in Salem, Oregon, home to the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, for two days, September 9 and 10, 2006 to share their most recent FM scientific research findings. Dr. Robert Bennett of the Oregon Health and Sciences University and a leading fibromyalgia researcher, moderated this prestigious meeting. A couple of meeting highlights include:
- An
opening presentation by Dr. Stephen Katz, Director of the National Institutes of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and
Skin Diseases on past, present and future FM research funding. His talk assured the audience that the NIH is very interested in continuing to fund and support fibromyalgia scientific research.
- Doctors Dan Heffez
and Michael Rosner gave updates regarding the connection between neurological
abnormalities, including cervical spinal cord compressions and Chiari malformations in the etiology of patients diagnosed with FM.
- Presentations
by Dr. Dedra Buchwald who gave preliminary data from a University of Washington study looking at
Chiari Malformations and Fibromyalgia and by Dr. Andrew Holman, who discussed his assessment of more than 900 MRIs of FM patients cervical spinal cords, with heads in extension, gave even more credence to possible neurological implications in fibromyalgia syndrome.
- Dr.
Patrick Wood gave an outstanding talk about the connection of dopamine, a neurotransmitter, depletion in connection to fibromyalgia.
You can now purchase DVD’
s of the speakers and their talks by visiting our shopping mall before you leave this site. At present, the only lecture not available on the DVDs is Dr. Roland Staud. Once his work is published we hope to offer it as well.
Click here to go to the complete text of the Fibromyalgia and Central Nervous System syllabus, which includes a list of speakers, complete with biographies, and abstracts.
