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'''Brian Walitt, M.D., M.P.H.''' is a | '''Brian Walitt, M.D., M.P.H.''' is a researcher at the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) in the United States and oversees intramural clinical protocols. He is the lead clinical investigator of the [[NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study]]. | ||
==Research== | ==Research== | ||
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*2016, [[NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study]] | *2016, [[NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study]] | ||
*2015, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750385/ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy] | *2015, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750385/ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy] | ||
*2015, [http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26717948 Neuroimaging of Central Sensitivity Syndromes: Key Insights from the Scientific Literature] | |||
==Talks & interviews== | ==Talks & interviews== | ||
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*2016, [http://thoughtsaboutme.com/2016/02/21/brian-walitts-radical-bias-disorders-of-subjective-perception-mecfs-as-normal-life-experience/ Brian Walitt’s Radical Bias: Disorders of Subjective Perception, ME/CFS as Normal Life Experience?] | *2016, [http://thoughtsaboutme.com/2016/02/21/brian-walitts-radical-bias-disorders-of-subjective-perception-mecfs-as-normal-life-experience/ Brian Walitt’s Radical Bias: Disorders of Subjective Perception, ME/CFS as Normal Life Experience?] | ||
*2012, [https://www.arthritis-research.org/files/Wolfe%20%282012%29%20Culture,%20science%20and%20the%20changing%20nature%20of%20fibromyalgia%20-%20NRR%20submission%20version.pdf The Changing Nature of Fibromyalgia Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt] | *2012, [https://www.arthritis-research.org/files/Wolfe%20%282012%29%20Culture,%20science%20and%20the%20changing%20nature%20of%20fibromyalgia%20-%20NRR%20submission%20version.pdf The Changing Nature of Fibromyalgia Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt] | ||
*2009, [http://cfsnova.com/sp-Walitt.html#events Fibromyalgia 201] | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 09:39, February 22, 2016
Brian Walitt, M.D., M.P.H. is a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and oversees intramural clinical protocols. He is the lead clinical investigator of the NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study.
Research[edit | edit source]
Dr. Walitt's self-stated research interests include "pain and related interoceptive disorders (i.e. fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue)" and "social construction of illness and disease."
He is interested in studying "perceptual illness" which he defines as follows:
"In these disorders, a person experiences a range of different bodily sensations, such as pain and fatigue, without any clear external cause. In some, these sensations can be bothersome while in others they can be disabling. The perceptual illnesses that interest me change their names with every generation, with current disorders being called fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and Lyme disease." [1]
Controversy[edit | edit source]
Walitt believes that fibromyalgia is a "psychosomatic experience," a variant of normal, and not an abnormal disease state that should be medicalized.[2] He has stated that fibromyalgia is not a disease but rather a way of "dealing with the difficulties of just being a human.”[3]
In a 2015 paper on chemotherapy related cognitive dysfunction[4] co-authored by Walitt, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are referred to as somatoform illnesses, with their hallmark being a "...discordance between the severity of subjective experience and that of objective impairment...".
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
- 2016, NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study
- 2015, Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy
- 2015, Neuroimaging of Central Sensitivity Syndromes: Key Insights from the Scientific Literature
Talks & interviews[edit | edit source]
- 2015, VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model (there is a transcript[5])
Online presence[edit | edit source]
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- 2016, Brian Walitt’s Radical Bias: Disorders of Subjective Perception, ME/CFS as Normal Life Experience?
- 2012, The Changing Nature of Fibromyalgia Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt
- 2009, Fibromyalgia 201
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science
- ↑ VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model
- ↑ NIH lead clinical investigator thinks CFS and fibro are somatoform, #MEAction, February 20, 2016
- ↑ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy
- ↑ NIH lead clinical investigator thinks CFS and fibro are somatoform
