H Sletvold1, T C Stiles, N I Landrø. 1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of Trondheim, Norway.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the information processing capabilities in 25 patients with primary fibromyalgia (FM) by comparing them with 22 patients with major depression and 18 healthy controls. METHODS: A broad range of tasks related to various subcomponents of information processing were included. RESULTS: Our results indicated that patients with primary FM in general share with depressives a nonspecific deficit in information processing capacity. However, our data showed that cognitive dysfunction reflecting a presumed compromise of the right hemisphere is present in major depression, but not in primary FM. CONCLUSION: This finding would suggest that primary FM and depression are probably different conditions.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the information processing capabilities in 25 patients with primary fibromyalgia (FM) by comparing them with 22 patients with major depression and 18 healthy controls. METHODS: A broad range of tasks related to various subcomponents of information processing were included. RESULTS: Our results indicated that patients with primary FM in general share with depressives a nonspecific deficit in information processing capacity. However, our data showed that cognitive dysfunction reflecting a presumed compromise of the right hemisphere is present in major depression, but not in primary FM. CONCLUSION: This finding would suggest that primary FM and depression are probably different conditions.
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