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The Sleepydust Video

Newton’s Apples: Exploring the Ellis Interview with Dr. Julia Newton on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By Cort Johnson on May 22, 2013 6 Comments
Newton's Apples Issac Newton formulated the theory of gravity by watching an apple fall to the ground; Dr. Julia Newton has formulated a different theory of 'gravity' in ME/CFS ; she believes what's causing ME/CFS patients to have so much trouble walking and exercising  is not so much gravity Read more [...]
Categories : Autonomic Nervous System
Tags : cardiac, Newton, sympathetic

From Mood Disorders to MCS: A Neuroinflammatory Model Takes on the Symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

By marco on May 21, 2013 11 Comments
 NEUROINFLAMMATORY MODEL OF ME/CFS Part IV – SYMPTOMS, HETEROGENEITY AND ONSET -PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER? B - CAN THE NEUROINFLAMMATORY STATE EXPLAIN THE CARDINAL SYMPTOMS OF ME/CFS? - SYMPTOMS - FROM MOOD DISORDERS TO TINNITUS Firstly, it must be acknowledged that this line of inquiry started Read more [...]
Categories : Research
Tags : GABA, glutamate, inflammation

When Definitions Obscure: A Neuroinflammatory View of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Pt. IV

By marco on May 19, 2013 44 Comments
A – A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON 'ME/CFS'  I want to make a controversial and potentially unpopular proposal: that ME/CFS is not a discrete disease in any objective sense and that attempting to more rigorously define a 'pure' ME/CFS cohort is futile.   In Parts I to III, I set out what I suggest Read more [...]
Categories : Brain
Tags : GABA, glutamate, Marco

Conserving Energy and Coping Work in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Except When They Don’t: Study Suggests Large Group Gets No Help

By Cort Johnson on May 17, 2013 26 Comments
Examining the energy envelope and associated symptom patterns in chronic fatigue syndrome: does coping matter? Brown AA, Evans MA, Jason LA.Chronic Illn. 2013 Apr 12. ':earning to stay within your energy envelope isn't easy particularly when one  first comes down with chronic fatigue syndrome. Read more [...]
Categories : Mind/body
Tags : coping, energy envelope

Big Disease – Meet Big Data: Open Medicine Institute Scores Grant to Tackle Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

By Cort Johnson on May 16, 2013 7 Comments
Bring Me Men to Match My Mountains "Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains" - Sam Walter Foss A modern day equivalent for chronic fatigue syndrome might be "Give me data to match my disorder and researchers Read more [...]
Categories : Research
Tags : CAA, Kogelnik, munos, OMII, OpenMedNet, Tannenbaum

Free Books, Webcasts, Sleepins, Skydiving for ME/CFS: It Must Be ME/CFS Awareness Day!

By Cort Johnson on May 12, 2013 2 Comments
Twenty-one years ago today Tom Hennessey exhorted  'CFS' patients to unite together on the anniversary of Florence Nightingales birth to celebrate International CFS Day. Like all good ideas this one  caught on and was copied with the result that May 12th is now celebrated by people with Fibromyalgia, Read more [...]
Categories : Uncategorized
Tags : Awareness day, Hennessey, May 12th

Redefining ME/CFS? CDC Chief Reveals First Fruits of Multi-Center Doctor Study at FDA Stakeholder Meeting

By Simon McGrath on May 11, 2013 53 Comments
(Are different ME/CFS doctors seeing different types of ME/CFS patients. Would closely examining those patients reveal the elusive subsets researcher have been talking about for decades? At the FDA Workshop on April 26, Dr Elizabeth Unger, head of the CDC's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome programme Read more [...]
Categories : FDA
Tags : CDC, Definition, Unger

Bob Miller Skydiving for ME/CFS Research on May 12th, International ME/CFS Day

By Cort Johnson on May 9, 2013 14 Comments
Bob Miller can't dance...he can't run...he can't even play baseball for ME/CFS - he's not strong enough for that but he can fall, and May 12th, ME/CFS International Day, he's going to fall a long way, very quickly, to raise money for ME/CFS research. It's been a busy couple of months for Bob. Read more [...]
Categories : Advocacy
Tags : bob miller, May 12th, Simmaron, skydiving
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