Inflammation – Neuro and Otherwise Inflammation has become an increasingly important topic in fibromyalgia. It’s clear that “central sensitization” – an increase in pain sensitivity engineered by the central nervous system – is...
Dr. Barnden of the National Centre for NeuroImmnology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) in Griffith University, Australia has been doing some fascinating brain imaging work in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Over the past six years Barnden has been publishing results...
The bad news for fibromyalgia and ME/CFS is that the most complex, impenetrable and difficult to understand organ of all – the brain – appears to be heavily involved in both diseases. The good news is that the NIH aims to leapfrog its ability to understand...
Many voxel based brain studies have been done in fibromyalgia. These studies, which measure brain volume, have found reductions in gray matter (the stuff that makes up the neurons) in many brain regions including the frontal, cingulate, insular and motor cortices plus...
The low energy state, the inflammation, the oxidative stress – all the bad stuff that has shown up in ME/CFS – does it all come together in the brain? Andrew Lloyd asserted a decade ago that the symptoms in ME/CFS are all brain symptoms. If the brain...
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...
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