Cort Johnson discusses the research of Dr Andrew Miller, a psychoneuroimmunologist who is interested in how immune activation affects symptoms and behaviour.  His research has mostly focused on the biological roots of depression and the effects an immune agent called interferon alpha (IFN-a) given to fight hepatitis A patients has on their symptoms and behaviour.

Miller and others have been exploring the role the basal ganglia, found in the limbic system in the brain, plays in the producing the fatigue and other symptoms found in ME/CFS and other disorders.

Read more: Unrewarding Reward: The Basal Ganglia, Inflammation and Fatigue In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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