bit.ly/1zf3bqN Brain abnormalities in ME/CFS A scientific report from Jose Montoya’s group at Stanford University School of Medicine bit.ly/1DBB56T has just been published, with some striking results. The researchers’ aim was to see whether ME/CFS patients had “differences in gross brain structure, microscopic structure, or brain perfusion that may explain their symptoms”, and they found abnormalities in a brain tract called the arcuate fasciculus, which connects the frontal and temporal lobes, as well as reductions, of about 7%, in the volume of white matter in the brain in patients compared with healthy controls. The San Francisco Chronicle (top link) has just published an interesting context article on the results, and it quotes Dr. Michael Zeineh, the lead author, as saying, “White matter is thought to be highly susceptible to inflammation, and researchers have previously noted other areas of inflammation in patients with chronic disease, so this result wasn’t surprising….Unexpected, however, was the discovery of abnormalities in the arcuate fasciculus...” As the article points out, the Stanford study adds to the growing body of evidence that people with ME/CFS have real physical defects, especially in the central nervous system.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:04:36 +0000
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