Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was a quarterly medical and science journal that is no longer being published. Its target audience was physicians and researchers from many disciplines who desired information on the current understanding of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal articles included original research, clinical management information, case reports, and literature reviews.

The publisher originally was The Haworth Press, Inc., which was acquired by Taylor & Francis Group. Volumes 1-14, covering years 1995-2007 are available online for a fee via the Taylor & Francis Group

Volume 3, Issue 3, 1997

 * Letter To The Editor by Alexander C. Chester
 * Fatigue and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels
 * Chronic Fatigue, Fainting and Autonomie Dysfunction: Further Similarities Between Post-Polio Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
 * Parvovirus B19 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Report of the International Meeting on Standardization and Calibration of Cytokine Immunoassays: A User's Perspective
 * Development of Outcome Measures for Therapeutic Trials of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Psychomotor Functioning in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Massage Therapy Effects on Depression and Somatic Symptoms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Cognitive Dysfunction and Disability in Geriatric Veterans with Self-Reported Intolerance to Environmental Chemicals
 * Possible Cell Membrane Transport Defect in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

Volume 3, Issue 2, 1997

 * Literature in Review
 * Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children: A Practicing Clinician's Approach
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adolescents—An Opinion
 * Illness Onset Characteristics in Children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue
 * The Prevalence of Chronic Fatiguing Illnesses Among Adolescents in the United States
 * Research with Children and Adolescents with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Methodologies, Designs, and Special Considerations
 * Guest Editorial, by David S. Bell

Volume 3, Issue 1, 1997

 * Literature in Review
 * Pteridines and Neuroimmune Function and Pathology
 * NeuroSPECT Findings in Children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * A Screening Instrument for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Reliability and Validity
 * A Preliminary Assessment of the Association of SCL-90-R Psychological Inventory Responses with Changes in Urinary Metabolites in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Disorder of Central Cholinergic Transmission
 * Introduction by Nancy G. Klimas & Roberto Patarca

Volume 2, Issue 4, 1996

 * Literature in Review
 * The Neuroendocrinology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evaluation of a 30-Criteria-Score and Correlation with Immune Activation
 * Risk Factors for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Case-Control Study
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS): A Critical Evaluation of Testing for Active Human Herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) Infection, Review of Data of 107 Cases
 * Editorial, by Nancy Klimas & Roberto Patarca

Volume 2, Issue 2-3, 1996

 * Poster Session II
 * Symposium B: Related Disorders - Gulf War Syndrome
 * Session X: CFS - Natural History and Epidemiology
 * Natural Course of CFS and Its Predictors by G. Bleijenberg, J.N.H.M. Vercoulen, E. Bazelmans, C.M.A. Swanink, J.F.M. Fennis, J.M.D. Galama, and J.W.M. van der Meer.
 * The Natural History of CFS in the CDC Surveillance System by J.G. Dobbins, M. Reyes, N. Cole, P.L. Stee1, B. Randall, and W.C. Reeves.
 * Demographic Data on Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome University Hospital in Stockholm by B. Evengård, G. Lindh, L. Lindqvist, and R. Olin.


 * Session IX: CFS - Treatment
 * A Review of the Use of Antiviral and Immuno-modulating Drugs in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by K. De Meirleir;
 * A New Model for Handling CFS Patients at an Out-Patient Department of Infectious Diseases in Sweden by R. Engqvist, C. Hedenstedt, B. Evengård, G. Lindh, L. Lindqvist, and R. Olin;
 * An Overview of Clinical Experience in the U.S.A. with Ampligen® (Poly I:Poly C12U) in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by D.R. Strayer and  W.A. Carter.


 * Poster Session I
 * Session VIII: CFS - Clinical Observations
 * Symptom Perceptions and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and GI Disorders by H. Hyrnan and T. Wasser.


 * Session VII: CFS - Neuropsychology
 * Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by B. Fischler, R. Cluydts, V. De Gucht, L. Kaufman, and K. De Meirleir;
 * The Cardiff Chronic Fatigue Study - The First 300 Patients by A.P. Smith, L.K. Borysiewicz, J. Pollack, and M. Thomas;
 * Psychic and Psychosomatic Complaints in CFS Patients by U.T. Egle, W. Nix, and R. Schwab;
 * Neurasthenia Revisited: ICD-10 and DSMIIIR Psychiatric Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients and Controls by A. E. Farmer, I. Jones, J. Hillier, M. Llewellyn, L. Borysiewicz, and A. Smith;
 * Analysis of Aspects of Personality and Life Style in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by E. R. Neerinckx, B. Van Houdenhove, H. Bobbaers, and D. Blockmans.


 * Session VI: CFS - Functional Neuro-Imaging
 * Radionuclide Brain Imaging in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) by D.C. Costa.


 * Session V: CFS - Immunology
 * Immunopathogenesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by N.G. Klimas
 * Immunologic Abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by U. Tirelli, M. Tavio, and A. Pinto;
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evaluation of a 30-Criteria-Score and Correlation with Immune Activation by A. Hilgers and J. Frank;
 * Lymphocyte Subsets, Apoptosis and Cytokines in Patients with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by C.M.A. Swanink, J.H.M.M. Vercnulen, J. M. D. Galama, M. T. L. Roos, L. Meyaard, J. van der Ven-Jongekrijg, R. de Nijs, G. Bleijenberg, J.F.M. Fernis, F. Miedema, and J.W.M. van der Meer


 * Session IV: CFS - Microbiologic Pathogenesis
 * Microbial Pathogens as a Cause of CFS by J.M.D. Galama, C.M.A. Swanink, J.H.M.M. Vercoulen, J.F.M. Fennis, G. Bleijenberg, and J.W.M. van der Meer;
 * Borna Disease Virus in the Atlanta CFS Case-Control Study by J.G. Dobbins, W.I. Lipkin, C. Even, A.C. Mawle;
 * Demonstration of Borna Disease Virus RNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Japanese Patients with CFS by K. Ikuta, T. Nakaya, H. Takahashi, Y. Nakamura, S. Asahi, M. Tobiume, H. Kuratsune, K. Yamaguti, R. Inagi, K. Yamanishi, T. Kitani;
 * Failure to Demonstrate Enterovirus in Swedish Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by G. Lindh, A. Samuelson, K.O. Hedlund, B. Evengård, L. Lindqvist, and A. Ehrnst;
 * Enterovirus Replication and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by J. W. Gow, W. M. H. Behan, P. Cash, K. Simpson, D. Kay, M. M. McGill, and P.O. Behan


 * Symposium A: Related Disorders - Post-Polio Syndrome - Exercise capacity in post-polio patients
 * Session III: CFS - Muscle
 * Muscle Studies in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by W.M.H. Behan;
 * Identification of Enteroviral RNA Detected in Muscle Biopsies from Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome of Myositis, Using Reverse Transcription-Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction and Nucleotide Sequencing by B. Sotefiou, H. Zhang, D.R. Woodrow, R.J.M. Lane, and L.C. Archard;
 * Alterations in Muscles of CFS Patients at Morphological, Biochemical and Molecular Level by E. Pizzigallo, A. Di Girolamo, G. Montanari, L. Dragani, J. Vecchiet, and G. Calella


 * Session II: CFS - Neuro-Endocrinology
 * Neuroendocrinology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by T.G. Dinan
 * Neuroendocrinological Studies in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by B. Evengård, P. Eneroth, C-G. Nilsson, L Lindqvist, G. Lindh, and R. Olin;
 * Preliminary Evidence for a Molecular Basis to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by N.R.McGregor, R.H. Dunstan, M. Zerbes,  H.L. Butt, T. K. Roberts, and I. J. Klineberg;
 * Defective Dexamethasone Induced Growth Hormone Release in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Evidence for Cerebral Glucocorticoid Receptor Resistance by T. Majeed, T. G. Dinan, and P.O. Behan


 * Session I: CFS Assessment
 * Guidelines for Evaluating and Defining CFS by Keiji Fukuda;
 * ''Multi-dimensional Assessment in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by J. Vercoulen, E. Bazelmans, C. Swanink, J. Fennis, J. Galama, J. Van Der Meer, and G. Bleijenberg


 * The Elusive Gulf War Syndrome
 * Trial of a Selective Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor, Galanthamine Hydrobromide, in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Chronic Ciguatera:One Organic Cause of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Polioencephalitis and the Brain Fatigue Generator Model of Post-Viral Fatigue Syndromes
 * Introduction by Peter O. Behan & Kenny De Meirleir

Volume 2, Issue 1, 1996

 * Literature in Review
 * Immunologic Abnormalities in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Viruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Race and Ethnicity in Patients with Chronic Fatigue
 * Gulf War Syndrome: Polysormographic Study of Eight Cases
 * Interindividual Immune Status Variation Patterns in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Association with Gender and the Tumor Necrosis Factor System
 * Active HHV-6 Infection in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients from Italy
 * Editorial, by Roberto Patarca

Volume 1, Issue 3-4, 1995

 * Immunology Workshop Summary
 * Immunology
 * Clinical
 * Physiology
 * Interdisciplinary Studies
 * Epidemiology
 * CFS sociocultural influences and trauma: Clinical considerations
 * General Approaches to the Rehabilitation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * The four progressive stages of the CFS experience: A coping tool for patients
 * Coping Reports of Patients with Long-Term Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Clinical Assessment of Coping in CFS Patients
 * How Useful Are the Alternative Therapies for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
 * Alternative Medicine: Part of the Mainstream
 * Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Special Considerations - Abstract
 * Neurocognitive Testing in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Functional Neuroimaging in CFS: Applications and Limitations
 * Announcement: International Workshop Results in Established Network

Volume 1, Issue 2, 1995

 * Literature In Review
 * The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study
 * Disturbance of Hypothalamic Function and Evidence for Persistent Enteroviral Infection in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Abstract
 * Behavioral, and Psychological Risk Factors for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Central Role for Stress?'' - Abstract
 * Relationships of Cognitive Difficulties to Immune Measures, Depression and Illness Burden in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Abstract
 * Viruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Current Status - Abstract
 * Editorial, by Nancy Klimas & Roberto Patarca

Volume 1, Issue 1, 1995

 * Literature In Review
 * National Institutes of Health Workshop Statement NIH Technology Assessment Workshop on the Persian Gulf Experience and Health April 27-29,1994
 * Dysregulated Expression of Soluble Immune Mediator Receptors in a Subset of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Cross-Sectional Categorization of Patients by Immune Status - Abstract
 * The Assessment of Vascular Abnormalities in Late Life Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Brain SPECT: Comparison with Late Life Major Depressive Disorder - Abstract
 * Long Term Improvements in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treated with [[Ampligen] - Abstract]
 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children - Abstract
 * Psychoneuroimmunology and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Toward New Models of Disease
 * The Birth of a Journal by Nancy Klimas & Roberto Patarca