by Cort Johnson | Apr 6, 2016 | Basal Ganglia, Brain, Homepage, Immune, Neuroinflammation, Research
We know that hepatitis C patients receiving a strong pro-inflammatory drug (IFN-a) that helps them fight off their viral infections and ME/CFS patients have very similar problems with fatigue and identical problems with their basal ganglia. That suggests that... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 23, 2016 | Basal Ganglia, Brain, Cognition, Exercise, Research
Walking can be a real problem for people with ME/CFS but when researchers asked them to walk and think at the same time the problems really started to show up. Find out what happened in (and take the poll – how is your walking going?) in Walking and Thinking... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 29, 2015 | Basal Ganglia, Brain, Homepage, Research
The Chronic Pain Connection From “hand-warmers” to ion channel blockers to magnetic field generators more and more different approaches to get at the basis of chronic pain are being tried. Now comes an entirely different approach. First, studies indicated... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 21, 2015 | Autonomic Nervous System, Basal Ganglia, Brain, Cannabis, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Research
Missing that runner’s high? (Any high at all?) Your living circumstances or the losses you have endured may not be to blame. The loss of those good feelings may not be due to depression. Physiology could be behind all of them. “Highs” or good... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 20, 2015 | Basal Ganglia, Brain, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Hypoxia, Inflammation, Research
Everyone comes to a disease with their own preconceptions. That fact never seemed more true than in this Canadian fibromyalgia brain study. The researchers asked a good question, got a good answer and then made an interesting interpretation. Although the... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 30, 2015 | Basal Ganglia, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Insula, Low Dose Naltrexone, Neuroinflammation
“the present findings offer clinical implications that may serve to guide future studies of the pathophysiology and management of a variety of persistent pain conditions.” Loggia et. al. Chronic pain was thought for many years to be mostly a neuronal problem. Over or...
