Indre Bileviciute Ljungar

Indre Bileviciute Ljungar, PhD, is an Associated Professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet (a medical university in Solna), Sweden.

Talks and Interviews

 * 2012, 7th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2011 - One Year Experience of a Standardised Team-based Assessment of Suspected ME/CFS Patients DVD available

Research Studies

 * 2016, Resistance exercise improves physical fatigue in women with fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial. "ABSTRACT: 'METHODS: A total of 130 women with FM (age 22-64 years) were included in this assessor-blinded randomized controlled multicenter trial examining the effects of person-centered progressive resistance exercise compared with an active control group. The intervention was performed twice a week for 15 weeks. Outcomes were five dimensions of fatigue measured with the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20)...RESULTS: A higher improvement was found at the post-treatment examination for change in the resistance exercise group, as compared to change in the active control group in the MFI-20 subscale of physical fatigue.'"


 * 2015, Computerized training improves verbal working memory in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study."ABSTRACT: 'OBJECTIVE: Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome experience cognitive difficulties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of computerized training on working memory in this syndrome... SUBJECTS: Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome who participated in a 6-month outpatient rehabilitation programme were included in the study. Eleven patients who showed signs of working memory deficit were recruited for additional memory training and 12 patients with no working memory deficit served as controls... RESULTS: Cognitive training increased working memory (p = 0.003) and general attention (p = 0.004) to the mean level. Short-term memory was also improved, but the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.052) vs prior training. The control group did not show any significant improvement in primary outcome measures.'"