Els Tobback

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Els Tobback, PhD, is a biomedical scientist and somnologist at the Department of General Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.[1]

Education[edit | edit source]

  • 2003, Bioscience Engineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium[1]
  • 2004, Master of Cultures and Development Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium[1]
  • 2009, PhD in Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium[1]
  • 2012, International Sleep Medicine Course, Robinson College Cambridge, UK[1]


EUROMENE[edit | edit source]

Dr. Tobback is the Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) Coordinator the Working Group on conferences, seminars, training schools, and STSMs to increase capacity in ME/CFS research, and improve career pathways for ME/CFS researchers across Europe on behalf of EUROMENE, a European Union COST Action CA15111 not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.[2]

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2013, Sleep in the chronic fatigue syndrome[3] - (Abstract)
  • 2013, Undiagnosed and comorbid disorders in patients with presumed chronic fatigue syndrome[4] - (Abstract)
  • 2016, Factors determining fatigue in the chronic fatigue syndrome: a path analysis[5] - (Abstract)
  • 2017, Exploring the potential role of the advanced nurse practitioner within a care path for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome[6] - (Abstract)
  • 2018, Reciprocal associations between daily need-based experiences, energy, and sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome[7] - (Abstract)
  • 2019, Retrospective Analysis of Risk Factors for Periodic Limb Movements in a Large Cohort of Insomnia and Chronic Fatigue Patients[8] - (Abstract)

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Online presence[edit | edit source]

  • PubMed

See also[edit | edit source]

Learn more[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Curriculum Vitae - Els Tobback". EUROMENE. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Action CA15111". COST. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ Mariman, An N.; Vogelaers, Dirk P.; Tobback, Els; Delesie, Liesbeth M.; Hanoulle, Ignace P.; Pevernagie, Dirk A. (June 2013). "Sleep in the chronic fatigue syndrome". Sleep Medicine Reviews. 17 (3): 193–199. doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2012.06.003.
  4. ↑ Mariman, An; Delesie, Liesbeth; Tobback, Els; Hanoulle, Ignace; Sermijn, Erica; Vermeir, Peter; Pevernagie, Dirk; Vogelaers, Dirk (November 2013). "Undiagnosed and comorbid disorders in patients with presumed chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 75 (5): 491–496. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.07.010.
  5. ↑ Tobback, Els; Hanoulle, Ignace; Mariman, An; Delesie, Liesbeth; Pevernagie, Dirk; Vogelaers, Dirk (September 2, 2016). "Factors determining fatigue in the chronic fatigue syndrome: a path analysis". Acta Clinica Belgica. 71 (5): 284–289. doi:10.1080/17843286.2016.1165396. ISSN 1784-3286.
  6. ↑ Ryckeghem, Hannah; Delesie, Liesbeth; Tobback, Els; Lievens, Stefaan; Vogelaers, Dirk; Mariman, An (July 2017). "Exploring the potential role of the advanced nurse practitioner within a care path for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Advanced Nursing. 73 (7): 1610–1619. doi:10.1111/jan.13244.
  7. ↑ Campbell, Rachel; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Delesie, Liesbeth; Tobback, Els; Mariman, An; Vogelaers, Dirk; Mouratidis, Athanasios (December 2018). "Reciprocal associations between daily need-based experiences, energy, and sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome". Health Psychology. 37 (12): 1168–1178. doi:10.1037/hea0000621. ISSN 1930-7810.
  8. ↑ Tobback, Els; Desmet, Olivier; Hanoulle, Ignace; Delesie, Liesbeth; Pevernagie, Dirk; Vogelaers, Dirk; Mariman, An (August 27, 2019). "Retrospective Analysis of Risk Factors for Periodic Limb Movements in a Large Cohort of Insomnia and Chronic Fatigue Patients". Pharmacopsychiatry: a–0991–0498. doi:10.1055/a-0991-0498. ISSN 0176-3679.

chronic fatigue (CF) - Persistent and abnormal fatigue is a symptom, not an illness. It may be caused by depression, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome or many other illnesses. The term "chronic fatigue" should never be confused with the disease chronic fatigue syndrome.

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.

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