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Chronic fatigue syndrome
Main article: Neurology of ME/CFS Myalgic Encephalomyalitus: Encephalo refers to the brain.


 * 2016, One six year longitudinal MRI study found that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (per Fukuda & Canadian Consensus Criteria) is associated with decreases in white matter, gray matter and blood volume deficits in the brain as compared to healthy controls.


 * 2017, A study by Natelson, et al, showed that:


 * patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have higher brain ventricular lactate, more abnormal spinal fluids, lower brain glutathione, and reduced cerebral blood flow than controls,
 * psychiatric comorbidity does not influence any of these potential biological markers of CFS,
 * 50% of the patients had more than one of these abnormalities, and
 * a subgroup of CFS patients with brain abnormalities may have an underlying encephalopathy producing their illness.

Microglia

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 * "Microglia in Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"

Notable studies

 * 2014, Brains of People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Offer Clues About Disorder - New York Times: Well (2014)
 * 2016, Relative increase in choline in the occipital cortex in chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2017, CNS findings in chronic fatigue syndrome and a neuropathological case report
 * 2017, Grey and white matter differences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A voxel-based morphometry study
 * 2018, Structural brain changes versus self-report: machine-learning classification of chronic fatigue syndrome patients (Abstract)
 * 2018, Cortical hypoactivation during resting EEG suggests central nervous system pathology in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2018, Brain function characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome: A task fMRI study (Full Text)




 * 2018, Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 2018, Hyperintense sensorimotor T1 spin echo MRI is associated with brainstem abnormality in chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)

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