by Cort Johnson | Oct 14, 2019 | Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Brainstem, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Gulf War Illness, Inflammation, Ion Channels, Mast cell activation syndrome
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and... 
by Cort Johnson | Sep 1, 2019 | Cytokines, Gulf War Illness, Herbal, Herbs and Botanicals, Homepage, Immune, Klimas, Mifepristone, Neuroinflammation, NIH
I listened miserably to the sounds of silence broken by my occasional exclamations: “really?”, “no kidding”, “fascinating!”. During my two long sessions with Dr. Klimas, the recorder app on my phone had decided to record only my... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 13, 2017 | Brain, Epigenetics, Exercise, Genetics, Gulf War Illness, Homepage, Research
Baraniuk believes chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illness are related. In fact, he calls the post-exertional malaise found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) a “unique characteristic of CFS that is shared by Gulf War Illness (GWI)... 
by Cort Johnson | Jul 1, 2013 | Brain, Cognition, Energy Production, Exercise, Gulf War Illness
(Exercise stress tests suggest a process that provides energy to the brain during exercise and intense mental activity may be broken and causing severe cognitive dysfunction in one group of GWS/ME/CFS patients (decreasers). A second GWS/ME/CFS group (increasers) with... 
by Cort Johnson | Jun 25, 2013 | Brain, Cognition, Gulf War Illness, Hypoxia, Insula, Prefrontal Cortex
(Dr. Baraniuk finds damage to a critical nerve pathway that connects regions of the brain involved in fatigue and pain production and autonomic nervous system regulation. The damage, which affects the integrity of the nerve axons, is unusual and suggests GWS and... 
by Cort Johnson | Jan 28, 2013 | Exercise, Gender, Gulf War Illness, Homepage, Inflammation, Klimas
Some quick hits from the daylong celebration of the opening of Dr. Klimas Institue for Neuro-Immune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University. The full blog of the day will be posted on the Simmaron Rising page on the Simmaron Research Foundations website. Dean...
