In 2013, Michael VanElzakker produced one of the most intriguing hypotheses to date in ME/CFS. His Vagus Nerve Hypothesis proposed that an infection/inflammation near the vagus nerve was causing it to send an unending stream of messages to the brain, telling it to...
Dr. Barnden of the National Centre for NeuroImmnology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) in Griffith University, Australia has been doing some fascinating brain imaging work in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Over the past six years Barnden has been publishing results...
New study provides further evidence that problems with sensory gating may contribute to fibromyalgia pain and other symptoms. It’s a Jungle Out There The key to survival in the animal world is to be able to detect threats in the environment and react appropriately. ...
“This indicates a large unmet need to diagnose and treat migraine in GWI and CFS” Could chronic fatigue syndrome be a form of migraine? That might not be so wacky an idea as it sounds. About ten years ago Puri and Chaudhuri suggested chronic fatigue...
Background In this second of three blogs on the work the ‘Dubbo’ group in Australia is doing we look at a controversial and rather difficult topic called interoception. Interoception deals with our awareness of our bodies internal state. The field of...
In Wyller’s eyes chronic fatigue syndrome is not a ‘chronic fatigue’ disorder; it’s an autonomic nervous system disorder. Wyller has been studying ME/CFS for about five years; he knows the vast array of symptoms present in this disease and...