Getting at the Hurt in Chronic Pain
Pain – A Surprisingly Complex Experience Pain seems pretty elementary – it hurts! When it really hurts, you want to throw yourself out of your skin. It’s actually not so simple. Pain is often described as a complex, “biopsychosocial...
What “Phantom Nasal Congestion” May Tell Us About ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
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...
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 an Alzheimer’s Drug Disaster End Up Helping ME/CFS and FM?
“The Holy Grail in this field has been to discover how to turn off neuroinflammation in microglia.” Tanzi It’s been a bitter couple of years for big pharma and the Alzheimer’s community. Just today, Eisai and Biogen announced they were abandoning...
Is the Brain Causing the Small Fiber Neuropathy in Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS?)
It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body – as opposed to the brain – into play....Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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