Michael Maes

Michael Maes, M.D., Ph.D., is a researcher at IMPACT Strategic Research Center, Barwon Health, Deakin University, School of Medicine, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She is, also, affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and Health Sciences Graduate Program, Health Sciences Center, State University of Londrina, Brazil.

Her special interests include: Behavorial Systems Biology, Major depression, inflammatory illnesses and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Published Studies

 * 2015, A new case definition of Neuro-Inflammatory and Oxidative Fatigue (NIOF), a neuroprogressive disorder, formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: results of multivariate pattern recognition methods and external validation by neuro-immune biomarkers. The aim of the present study was to delineate a new case definition of ME/CFS based on pattern recognition methods and using neuro-immune, inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative stress (neuro-IO&NS) biomarkers as external validating criteria] (September 2015, Michael Maes)
 * 2015, Central pathways causing fatigue in neuro-inflammatory and autoimmune illnesses. BMC Medicine
 * 2014, The emerging role of autoimmunity in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/cfs)

Talks & Interviews

 * 2013, Dr Michael Maes: The Immune Pathophysiology of ME/CFS/FM (21 August 2013)

Online Presence

 * PubMed
 * Onward thru the Fog blog article about Dr. Maes' research