by Cort Johnson | Oct 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gulf War Illness, Inflammation, Ion Channels, Mast cell activation syndrome
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 2, 2019 | Cortisol, Exercise, Homepage, Hormones, Klimas, Limbic System, Neuroinflammation, Sex hormones
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise.... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 16, 2019 | Brain, Homepage, Neuroinflammation
“The Holy Grail in this field has been to discover how to turn off neuroinflammation in microglia.” Tanzi It’s been a bitter couple of years for big pharma and the Alzheimer’s community. Just today, Eisai and Biogen announced they were abandoning... 
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 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 11, 2019 | Energy Production, Homepage, Neuroinflammation, Research
It took Tony Komaroff over thirty years to get this done but it may have been worth it. Komaroff, Harvard doctor, researcher and ME/CFS advocate, has been studying, writing about and advocating for ME/CFS research since at least 1987 when he was the senior author on...
