A Bad Blood Vessel – Neuroinflammation Connection Shows Up in Long COVID
The brain and the blood vessels. So intimately intertwined but so rarely studied together. In retrospect, that’s kind of strange as blood vessels may have more to do with brain functioning than anything else. By weight, the brain is almost a non-entity –...
Surprising Findings Dot Day 2 of the Keystone Long-COVID Conference
We continue to take a deep dive into the “Long COVID and Post Acute Sequalae of SARS CoV 2 (PASC): Pathogenesis and Treatment” first-ever international conference on long COVID. Long-COVID research was always going to be a bit messy. Take a look at the...
Exercise Challenge Reveals a “Remarkable Discordance” in the Brains of People with ME/CFS
The post-exertional malaise occurring after exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome turns on a part of the brain that makes doing tasks more difficult.
Cognition II: Cortisol, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS … and Functional Cognition Disorder (?)
Right on the heels of a study showing that people with fibromyalgia have trouble focusing or paying attention comes another study linking cognitive problems to a balky stress response. Say What? Attention Deficits Highlight Why Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS) Are Such...
Cognition and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Key Findings
Cognition can be er…hard to understand – particularly if you have ME/CFS. This, the first of a series of blogs on seminal papers in ME/CFS, lays out the findings from key studies on cognition, including the core cognitive deficiency found, the areas that...StudyME
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