A report from the IACFS/ME 2011 Conference in Ottawa includes a number of presentations on the problems in the brain or central nervous system which could play a key role in ME/CFS.
- Decreased basal ganglia activation in CFS subjects is associated with fatigue
- Interaction of Self- and Illness-related Cognitive Processing in the Right Anterior Insula of the CFS patients: an fMRI study.
- Blunted Nasal and Systemic Sympathetic Reflexes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- a spinal fluid study suggested a brain injury is leaking proteins into the spinal fluid a nasal study demonstrated autonomic nervous system results
- and a paper suggest that for some patients, it may all be in the nose……
Prof Komaroff’s overview of research
