References for Working with Complexity, improving care for people living with Fibromyalgia – vPUK 2020

Professor Irene Tracey

Tracey I, Woolf CJ, Andrews NA. Composite pain biomarker signatures for objective assessment and effective treatment. Neuron. 2019 Mar 6;101(5):783-800.

Davis, K.D., Aghaeepour, N., Ahn, A.H., Angst, M.S., Borsook, D., Brenton, A., Burczynski, M.E., Crean, C., Edwards, R., Gaudilliere, B. and Hergenroeder, G.W., 2020. Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities. Nature Reviews Neurology, pp.1-20.

Tracey I, Mantyh PW. The cerebral signature for pain perception and its modulation. Neuron. 2007 Aug 2;55(3):377-91.

Tracey I, Dickenson A. SnapShot: pain perception. Cell. 2012 Mar 16;148(6):1308-.

Wanigasekera, V., Lee, M.C., Rogers, R., Hu, P. and Tracey, I., 2011. Neural correlates of an injury-free model of central sensitization induced by opioid withdrawal in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(8), pp.2835-2842.

Harper, Daniel E., Eric Ichesco, Andrew Schrepf, Johnson P. Hampson, Daniel J. Clauw, Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke, Richard E. Harris, and Steven E. Harte. "Resting functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray is associated with normal inhibition and pathological facilitation in conditioned pain modulation." The Journal of Pain 19, no. 6 (2018): 635-e1.

Kaplan, C.M., Schrepf, A., Ichesco, E., Larkin, T., Harte, S.E., Harris, R.E., Murray, A.D., Waiter, G.D., Clauw, D.J. and Basu, N., 2020. Association of Inflammation With Pronociceptive Brain Connections in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Concomitant Fibromyalgia. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 72(1), pp.41-46.

Soni, Anushka, Vishvarani Wanigasekera, Melvin Mezue, Cyrus Cooper, Muhammad K. Javaid, Andrew J. Price, and Irene Tracey. "Central Sensitization in Knee Osteoarthritis: Relating Presurgical Brainstem Neuroimaging and Pain DETECT‐Based Patient Stratification to Arthroplasty Outcome." Arthritis & Rheumatology 71, no. 4 (2019): 550-560.

Segerdahl, A.R., Themistocleous, A.C., Fido, D., Bennett, D.L. and Tracey, I., 2018. A brain-based pain facilitation mechanism contributes to painful diabetic polyneuropathy. Brain, 141(2), pp.357-364.

Segerdahl, A.R., Mezue, M., Okell, T.W., Farrar, J.T. and Tracey, I., 2015. The dorsal posterior insula subserves a fundamental role in human pain. Nature neuroscience, 18(4), pp.499-500.

Harris, R.E., Sundgren, P.C., Craig, A.D., Kirshenbaum, E., Sen, A., Napadow, V. and Clauw, D.J., 2009. Elevated insular glutamate in fibromyalgia is associated with experimental pain. Arthritis & Rheumatism: Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology, 60(10), pp.3146-3152.

Sarchielli, P., Di Filippo, M., Nardi, K. and Calabresi, P., 2007. Sensitization, glutamate, and the link between migraine and fibromyalgia. Current pain and headache reports, 11(5), pp.343-351.

Evdokimov, D., Frank, J., Klitsch, A., Unterecker, S., Warrings, B., Serra, J., Papagianni, A., Saffer, N., Meyer zu Altenschildesche, C., Kampik, D. and Malik, R.A., 2019. Reduction of skin innervation is associated with a severe fibromyalgia phenotype. Annals of neurology, 86(4), pp.504-516.

Evdokimov, D., Dinkel, P., Frank, J., Sommer, C. and Üçeyler, N., 2020. Characterization of dermal skin innervation in fibromyalgia syndrome. Plos one, 15(1), p.e0227674.

Harris, R.E., Clauw, D.J., Scott, D.J., McLean, S.A., Gracely, R.H. and Zubieta, J.K., 2007. Decreased central μ-opioid receptor availability in fibromyalgia. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(37), pp.10000-10006.

Denk, F., McMahon, S.B. and Tracey, I., 2014. Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective. Nature neuroscience, 17(2), pp.192-200.

Baliki, M.N., Petre, B., Torbey, S., Herrmann, K.M., Huang, L., Schnitzer, T.J., Fields, H.L. and Apkarian, A.V., 2012. Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain. Nature neuroscience, 15(8), pp.1117-1119.

Littlejohns, T.J., Holliday, J., Gibson, L.M., Garratt, S., Oesingmann, N., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Bell, J.D., Boultwood, C., Collins, R., Conroy, M.C. and Crabtree, N., 2020. The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions. Nature Communications, 11(1), pp.1-12.

Wanigasekera, V., Lee, M.C., Rogers, R., Kong, Y., Leknes, S., Andersson, J. and Tracey, I., 2012. Baseline reward circuitry activity and trait reward responsiveness predict expression of opioid analgesia in healthy subjects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(43), pp.17705-17710.

Vincent, K., Warnaby, C., Stagg, C.J., Moore, J., Kennedy, S. and Tracey, I., 2013. Brain imaging reveals that engagement of descending inhibitory pain pathways in healthy women in a low endogenous estradiol state varies with testosterone. Pain, 154(4), pp.515-524.

Dr Anushka Soni

Sarzi-Puttini, P., Giorgi, V., Marotto, D. and Atzeni, F., 2020. Fibromyalgia: an update on clinical characteristics, aetiopathogenesis and treatment. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, pp.1-16.

Macfarlane, G.J., Kronisch, C., Dean, L.E., Atzeni, F., Häuser, W., Fluß, E., Choy, E., Kosek, E., Amris, K., Branco, J. and Dincer, F.İ.T.N.A.T., 2017. EULAR revised recommendations for the management of fibromyalgia. Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 76(2), pp.318-328.

Soni A, Santos-Paulo S, Segerdahl A, Javaid MK, Pinedo-Villanueva R, Tracey I. Hospitalization in fibromyalgia: a cohort-level observational study of in-patient procedures, costs and geographical variation in England. Rheumatology. 2019.

Fitzcharles, M.A., Brachaniec, M., Cooper, L., Dubin, R., Flynn, T., Gerhold, K., Häuser, W., Cowan, K., Laupacis, A., Marleau, R. and Milot, M., 2017. A paradigm change to inform fibromyalgia research priorities by engaging patients and health care professionals. Canadian Journal of Pain, 1(1), pp.137-147.

Bäckryd, E., Persson, E.B., Larsson, A.I., Fischer, M.R. and Gerdle, B., 2018. Chronic pain patients can be classified into four groups: Clustering-based discriminant analysis of psychometric data from 4665 patients referred to a multidisciplinary pain centre (a SQRP study). PLoS One, 13(2), p.e0192623.

Napadow, V., LaCount, L., Park, K., As‐Sanie, S., Clauw, D.J. and Harris, R.E., 2010. Intrinsic brain connectivity in fibromyalgia is associated with chronic pain intensity. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 62(8), pp.2545-2555.

Schmidt-Wilcke, T., Ichesco, E., Hampson, J.P., Kairys, A., Peltier, S., Harte, S., Clauw, D.J. and Harris, R.E., 2014. Resting state connectivity correlates with drug and placebo response in fibromyalgia patients. NeuroImage: Clinical, 6, pp.252-261.

Leila Heelas

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10.    Beal, S. J. et al. Heightened risk of pain in young adult women with a history of childhood maltreatment: A prospective longitudinal study. Pain (2020). doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001706

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Dr Sandra Wiltshire

Edwards KA, Pielech M, Hickman J, Ashworth J, Sowden G, Vowles KE. The Relation of Self‐Compassion to Functioning among Adults with Chronic Pain. European Journal of Pain. 2019 May 21.

Neff K. Self-compassion: An alternative conceptualization of a healthy attitude toward oneself. Self and identity. 2003 1;2(2):85-101.

Dr Wiltshire has included a compilation of resources on compassion.