Abigail Brown

|title=Abigail A. Brown, PhD., is a post-doctoral fellow at Eating Recovery Center-Insight Behavioral Health in Chicago, Illinois, US. She received her Doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology at the Center for Community Research, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, with Dr. Leonard Jason as her academic advisor. Her research work focuses on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), specifically diagnosis of the condition, case definition clarification, the impact of medical, social and familial stigma on quality of life, and non-pharmacological treatment interventions. Her doctoral thesis suggested that post-exertional malaise (PEM) should be considered a cardinal symptom of ME and CFS. |title= |title===Doctoral Dissertation== |title=*2017 - Investigating Post-Exertional Malaise as a Core Symptom of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Meta-Analytic Approach |title= |title===Book chapter== |title=*2013, The implications of sensitization and kindling for chronic fatigue syndrome |title= |title===Notable studies in ME/CFS== |title=*2009, CFS: A Review of Epidemiology and Natural History Studies (Full Text) |title=*2010, Illness duration and coping style in chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2011, A natural history study of chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2011, Fatigue Scales and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Issues of Sensitivity and Specificity (Full Text) |title=*2012, Data Mining: Comparing the Empiric CFS to the Canadian ME/CFS Case Definition (Full Text) |title=*2012, Factor analysis of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2012, Predictors of Fatigue among Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full text) |title=*2013, Contrasting chronic fatigue syndrome versus myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2013, Energy conservation/envelope theory interventions (Full Text) |title=*2014, Examining case definition criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis (Full Text) |title=*2014, Validating a measure of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome symptomatology (Full Text) |title=*2015, Issues in Estimating Rates of Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in a Community-based Sample (Full Text) |title=*2015, Comparing and contrasting consensus versus empirical domains (Abstract) |title=*2015, Unintended Consequences of not Specifying Exclusionary Illnesses for Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (Full Text) |title=*2015, Reflections on the Institute of Medicine’s systemic exertion intolerance disease (Full Text) |title=*2015, Chronic fatigue syndrome versus systemic exertion intolerance disease (Abstract) |title=*2015, Factor Analysis of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire: Identifying Core Domains (Full Text) |title=*2015, Test–retest reliability of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire (Full Text) |title=*2015, Problems in Defining Post-Exertional Malaise (Full Text) |title=*2015, An assessment of fatigue in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (reprinted in 2017) (Abstract) |title=*2016, Mortality in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2016, The Relationship between Age and Illness Duration in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2016, Are Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome different illnesses? A preliminary analysis (Full Text) |title=*2016, Identifying Key Symptoms Differentiating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from Multiple Sclerosis (Full Text) |title=*2016, Educational Priorities for Healthcare Providers and Name Suggestions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Including the Patient Voice (Full Text) |title=*2016, Case definitions integrating empiric and consensus perspectives (Full Text) |title=*2017, Differentiating Multiple Sclerosis from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text) |title=*2018, A content analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis in the news from 1987 to 2013 (Abstract) |title=*2018, Meta-analysis investigating post-exertional malaise between patients and controls (Abstract) |title=*2018, Patients’ hopes for recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Toward a ‘recovery in’ framework. Chronic Illness. (Abstract) |title= |title= |title===Talks and interviews== |title= |title===Online presence== |title=*LinkedIn |title=*ResearchGate |title=*Google Scholar |title= |title===See also== |title=*DePaul Symptom Questionnaire |title=*Leonard Jason |title===Learn more== |title= |title===References== |title= |title= |title= |title=