INTRODUCTION: Cognitive disturbance in patients with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis is today a topic of a great clinical interest, largely due to the fact that these persons often complain about cognitive problems. OBJECTIVE: This study is aimed to assess the visuospatial memory, attention and perceptive capacities in chronic pain patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Groups were constituted by fibromyalgia patients and rheumatoid arthritis patients, as well as a control group. All the subjects completed a battery of visual and spa-tial memory, speed of processing, working memory, attention, orientation and visuoperceptive abilities. A cognitive reserve measurement was obtained. RESULTS: Results show that chronic pain patients displayed worse cognitive performance than controls. Moreover, arthritis patients execute poorly when compared to the group of fibromyalgia in tasks that demand visuoperceptive integration and visuomotor processing. Patients suffering fibromyalgia obtained worse punctuations than those with arthritis in spatial memory and spatial orientation tasks. CONCLUSIONS: Both groups developed important cognitive deficits, which cannot be explained by the collateral effects of such pathologies, because cognitive profiles are not similar and appear from the beginning of the disease.
INTRODUCTION:Cognitive disturbance in patients with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis is today a topic of a great clinical interest, largely due to the fact that these persons often complain about cognitive problems. OBJECTIVE: This study is aimed to assess the visuospatial memory, attention and perceptive capacities in chronic painpatients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Groups were constituted by fibromyalgiapatients and rheumatoid arthritispatients, as well as a control group. All the subjects completed a battery of visual and spa-tial memory, speed of processing, working memory, attention, orientation and visuoperceptive abilities. A cognitive reserve measurement was obtained. RESULTS: Results show that chronic painpatients displayed worse cognitive performance than controls. Moreover, arthritispatients execute poorly when compared to the group of fibromyalgia in tasks that demand visuoperceptive integration and visuomotor processing. Patients suffering fibromyalgia obtained worse punctuations than those with arthritis in spatial memory and spatial orientation tasks. CONCLUSIONS: Both groups developed important cognitive deficits, which cannot be explained by the collateral effects of such pathologies, because cognitive profiles are not similar and appear from the beginning of the disease.
Authors: Carmen M Galvez-Sánchez; Cristina Muñoz Ladrón de Guevara; Casandra I Montoro; María José Fernández-Serrano; Stefan Duschek; Gustavo A Reyes Del Paso Journal: PLoS One Date: 2018-08-01 Impact factor: 3.240
Authors: Cristina Muñoz Ladrón de Guevara; Gustavo A Reyes Del Paso; María José Fernández Serrano; Casandra I Montoro Journal: J Clin Med Date: 2022-06-14 Impact factor: 4.964