Are All the “Feel-Good” Pathways Blocked in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Missing that runner’s high? (Any high at all?) Your living circumstances or the losses you have endured may not be to blame. The loss of those good feelings may not be due to depression. Physiology could be behind all of them. “Highs” or good...
Spinning Fibromyalgia: Brain Findings Suggest Dopamine May Be Key
Everyone comes to a disease with their own preconceptions. That fact never seemed more true than in this Canadian fibromyalgia brain study. The researchers asked a good question, got a good answer and then made an interesting interpretation. Although the...
Neuroinflammation and Chronic Pain Link Established: Authors Call for Treatment Trials
“the present findings offer clinical implications that may serve to guide future studies of the pathophysiology and management of a variety of persistent pain conditions.” Loggia et. al. Chronic pain was thought for many years to be mostly a neuronal problem. Over or...
Fatigue Explained? Japanese Assert Brain Damage Causes Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A Central Nervous System Hypothesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome “… neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies in combination with subjective or a newly developed objective evaluation method of chronic fatigue have begun to clarify the mechanisms underlying...
The ‘Insulted Midbrain’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Recently Dr. Lucinda Bateman proposed that neuroinflammation in the middle part of the brain could explain many, if not all, of the symptoms found in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. With that intriguing hypothesis in mind, we take a look back at a fascinating MRI study by...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
Allyn Archer
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