Is Alzheimer’s Caused by an Infection? (And Why it Might Matter for ME/CFS and FM)
Alzheimer’s presents one of the great dilemma’s facing our medical system. With prevalence and costs ever rising and no good treatments in sight money is pouring into studies trying to understand it. A recent study presented a shocking conclusion:...
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...
Fatigue – the Japanese Way: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Perspective
The Japanese have long been engaged in a quest to understand severe fatigue. Severe fatigue is an issue the Japanese apparently take fairly seriously. In fact, Watanabe and Tanaka begin their overview of the causes of severe, chronic fatigue by referring to exhaustion...
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...
The Mitochondria Man Gets His Money and The UK Goes MEGA: ME/CFS Research Moving Forward
Thanks to yet another major donation to the Open Medicine Foundation, the OMF’s “Mitochondria Man”, Robert Naviaux, is moving forward with a major study. Across the Atlantic, the UK’s “Grand Challenge” – potentially the...StudyME
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