A collaborative research project linking the Island’s Radiology and Chronic Pain departments with neuroscience at both Imperial College and University of Southampton is getting underway today (Saturday).
This work has stemmed from complex presentations of pain that are characterized by limited clinic findings for tissue based pathology and manifest in those who have suffered exposure to sustained threat or trauma. Often these conditions are described as medically unexplained and are difficult to manage. Specifically, Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a focus as it potentially represents a quintessentiallyfunctional condition that, if understood, may provide a paradigm for better insight into other similar such presentations.
There have been several specific areas within pain, neurological, and cognitive sciences that have recently provided an opportunity to develop an objective paradigm for understanding these conditions. At the core of these discoveries is modern neuroscience and imaging techniques.
The project gets underway today with a visit by Professor Basant Puri from Imperial College /Hammersmith Hospital to work with the local team scanning patients in the MRI scanner at St Mary’s Hospital.
