A Novel Neuroinflammatory Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Mackay and Tate propose that neuroinflammation in the hypothalamus disregulates the paraventricular nucleus causing the stress response in chronic fatigue syndrome to go bananas, producing all sorts of symptoms. They look forward to the day when brain scans will produce a diagnosable brain signature for both ME/CFS and FM.
Powerful Models Accurately Predict Response to Exercise and Treatments in ME/CFS
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all – exercise – affects ME/CFS patients’ physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise....
Could the Brain’s Mast Cells Be Causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Theoharis Theoharides believes that metabolic problems are present in ME/CFS but he has a new idea why they’re occurring. In a hypothesis where mast cells meet the brain, Theoharides proposes that mast cells in the hypothalamus are pouring out neuro-inflammatory...
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...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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