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... 
by Cort Johnson | Jul 4, 2019 | Brain, Epstein-Barr Virus, Neuroinflammation, Pathogens
Forty years ago, the Epstein-Barr virus was the hot topic in ME/CFS. Nobody was talking about neuroinflammation back then. Now, though, the idea that neuroninflammation may be causing everything from increased pain sensitivity to fatigue to possibly even the movement... 
by Remy | Jun 12, 2019 | Brain, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Goldstein, Homepage, Nimodipine
Remy provides the second in a series of blogs on using nimidopine – a calcium channel blocking drug – in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). As described in Dr. Katherine Downing-Orr’s 2010 book, “Beating Chronic Fatigue Your... 
by Cort Johnson | May 21, 2019 | Brainstem, Craniocervical Instability, Craniocervical Instability, Homepage, Spine
I can hardly believe it myself. My ME is in remission. Jen Brea She ditched her wheelchair seven weeks ago. Her POTS disappeared in March. The sensitivities to sound, light, vibration and touch are gone. So is the muscle twitching, the air hunger, the restless legs,...
