Fatigue Goes Legit at the NIH: The “Beyond the Symptom – Biology of Fatigue” Workshop
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
Avindra Nath on “A Neurologic Crisis” Plus Leaky Brains in Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
Brain autopsy results indicate that COVID-19 patients may have thinned blood vessels in the brain which are prone to leak and trigger small strokes in the brain. A similar finding showed up in a chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) almost 30 years ago. Blood vessel problems may be rife in both diseases.
Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness – the Widespread Neuroinflammation Diseases
The Loggia Lab at Harvard finds the same kind of widespread neuroinflammation in Gulf War illness that it did in fibromyalgia. Similar patterns of unusually widespread neuroinflammation have been found in chronic fatigue syndrome and migraine.
The Brainstem, Vagus Nerve, Neuroinflammation and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The VanElzakker Way
Jeff’s amazing craniocervical instability story indicated that a damaged brainstem can produce all the symptoms of ME/CFS/FM/POTS. He’s not the first to believe that. Michael VanElzakker, the author of the Vagus Nerve Hypothesis, has believed that for...
Brain on Fire: Widespread Neuroinflammation Found in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Neuroinflammation, Fatigue and Pain Lab Stop We were having a case of déjà vu as we drove around the surprisingly large campus. Getting into the NIH to see Avindra Nath had been a nightmare. It turned out that the NIH would only allow the big van through one access...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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