Genes Highlight Inflammation and Mast Cells in Fibromyalgia
Lamenting the lack of a diagnostic biomarker for FM, U.S. researchers turned to measuring the expression of the genes in FM patients blood. Their findings suggested FM was a neuro-immune disease with a twist. Check out what they found in Genes Highlight Inflammation...
Information Overload? Are Fibromyalgia Patient’s Brains Trying to Do Too Much?
The present observations, therefore, indicate the patients’ inability to recruit inhibitory and self defensive circuits against sensory repetition. The authors Is thinking harder than it used to be? Do even little mental tasks seem effortful at times? It might not be...
Fibromyalgia Blood Test Going Mainstream?
Most FM researchers believe FM is a central nervous system disorder, but then came the small nerve fiber problems, and Dr. Pridgen’s antiviral approach, and now there’s this darned blood test – all suggesting that the immune system is involved....
Migraine, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia – Low Oxygen, High Lactate Disorders?
Migraine effects 12% of the population (!) or about 40 million people. Two studies suggest as many as 75% of people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience migraines and that most migraines in ME/CFS are undiagnosed. A recent large fibromyalgia study suggested...
Brian Walitt and the Psychosomaticism of Fibromyalgia: Another Look
Brian Walitt’s belief that ME/CFS and FM are psychosomatic disorder rests on one idea – that cognitive problems found in them don’t mean beans in the real world. Walitt’s recent paper testing that idea left one wondering, however, who’s...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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