The Brainstem The brainstem – a small area at the base of the brain that contacts the spinal cord – has become of ever more interest in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Barnden’s studies suggest brainstem involvement is present. VanElzakker...
Every once in a while a study comes along for which terms like “seminal” or “groundbreaking” seems appropriate. The 2020 Van Campen/Rowe/Visser study, “Cerebral blood flow is reduced in ME/CFS during head-up tilt testing even in the...
In “Key Milestones Contributing to the Understanding of the Mechanisms Underlying Fibromyalgia”, two Australian researchers give a fascinating overview of what they consider to be the breakthrough findings in FM. Tellingly, they quickly highlight...
Using magnetic fields to treat the brain sounds more than a bit woo-woo. The brain, though, is an electrical organ. Our central nervous system uses tiny bits of electricity – electrons – to send signals whizzing around the brain, and electrons in turn...
Travis Craddock heads Dr. Klimas’s biocomputational modeling team at the Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine (INIM) at Nova Southeastern University. This is the team responsible for crunching the hundreds of thousands of data points gathered from Dr....
“Therefore, in this study, we hypothesize that understanding cortisol patterns in both these syndromes may be a crucial factor in characterizing FMS and CFS.” The authors More than any other substance, cortisol demonstrates how integral a role the stress...
