Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Brains of People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Offer Clues About Disorder - NYTimes.com

Brains of People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Offer Clues About Disorder - NYTimes.com

It affects us seriously so too dam right it should be taken seriously!

" two recent studies — one from investigators at Stanford a few weeks ago and another from a Japanese research team published earlier this year — have found that the brains of people with chronic fatigue syndrome differ from those of healthy people, strengthening the argument that serious physiological dysfunctions are at the root of the condition.

“You’ve got two different groups that have independently said, ‘There’s something going on in the brain that is aberrant,’ ” said Leonard Jason, a psychologist at DePaul University in Chicago who studies the condition, also called myalgic encephalomyelitis and widely known as M.E./C.F.S. “I think you have a growing sense that this illness should be taken seriously.”

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