A neuroglial hypothesis of ME/CFS from a pediatrician with ME/CFS and a leading glial cell researcher Yet another fascinating hypothesis has come our way. Produced by a German researcher/pediatrician/author with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in collaboration with...
The received wisdom about the pain in fibromyalgia (FM) is that it’s being produced in the central nervous system. That idea was amplified very early in “Altered Pain in the Brainstem and Spinal Cord of Fibromyalgia Patients During the Anticipation and...
Is the tide turning a bit? Could long COVID be starting to lift some chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) boats? That was certainly our hope. We hoped the appearance of millions of long-COVID long haulers would spark interest in the really long haulers – the people...
“If you think research is expensive, try disease.”—Mary Lasker (NIGMS, 2011) If any medical field needs help, it’s chronic pain. It’s remarkable, indeed, that the treatment options for a field that affects so many and has such huge economic and...
Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...
“An Outstanding study” Avindra Nath The UK Biobank study, “SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank”, published in the Nature journal, no less, is the first of many of its type we are likely to see over the next...
