by Cort Johnson | Aug 12, 2019 | BDNF, Brain, Homepage, Insula, Limbic System, Small Fiber Neuropathy
It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body – as opposed to the brain – into play.... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 8, 2019 | Homepage
Everything can change in a moment… You never know what will happen in the future. Never stop fighting. I’m fighting with you. Whitney Dafoe This is the 7th Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Day of Understanding and Remembrance – a day which marks... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 6, 2019 | Homepage, Research
“We’re on the job and we intend to provide a resource for the community that will really move things forward”. Ron Tompkins Times are changing. The Stanford area with its bevy of researchers and doctors (Ron Davis, Robert Phair, Mark Davis, David... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 3, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Neuroplasticity, Neuroplasticity
The idea that the brain is plastic in the sense of changeable, adaptable, malleable is, I’ve come to believe, the single most important change to our understanding of the human brain in 400 years. Norman Doidge The Bay Area Medical Associates in Sausalito,... 
by Cort Johnson | Jul 29, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, HPA axis, Recovery Stories
Who better to write this piece “This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself” than Ryan Prior – who himself recovered from a debilitating mysterious disease. Doug Lindsay’s story is so powerful...
