Jarred Younger

Doctor Jarred Younger is an American researcher who leads the Neuroinflammation, Pain & Fatigue lab at the University of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. He previously worked at the Stanford ME/CFS Initiative with Jose Montoya, as an Assistant Professor involved in a notable study highlighting leptin levels and ME/CFS.

He is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense to study new techniques for diagnosing and treating neuroinflammation in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illness. In particular his work focuses on the role of microglia.

Dr. Younger is a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project
Chair (Overall/Cognitive) of the Neurologic/Cognitive/CNS Imaging Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Awards

 * 2016 Ramsay Award Program grant recipient, sponsored by the Solve ME/CFS Initiative for Advanced Non-Invasive Analysis in ME/CFS Diagnosis and Treatment Decisions

Notable studies

 * 2010, Low-dose naltrexone for the treatment of fibromyalgia: findings of a small, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, counterbalanced, crossover trial assessing daily pain levels (Full Text)
 * 2013, Fibromyalgia Symptoms Are Reduced by Low-Dose Naltrexone: A Pilot Study (Full Text)
 * 2013, Daily cytokine fluctuations, driven by leptin, are associated with fatigue severity in chronic fatigue syndrome: Evidence of inflammatory pathology (Full Text)
 * 2017, Cytokine signature associated with disease severity in chronic fatigue syndrome patients (Full Text)

Talks & interviews

 * 2011, Chronic Pain in Women
 * 2014, ME/CFS Alerts Episode 68: Jarred Younger Interviewed by Deborah Waroff
 * 2015, Dr Jarred Younger - LDN Scientist - Low Dose Naltrexone
 * 2015, Pandora Research Report: Jarred Younger - Leptin in the Role of Neuroinflammation, Pain and Fatigue (see Leptin)
 * 2015, Jarred Younger, Ph.D. - Microglial Modulation in the Treatment of Fibromyalgia
 * 2015, Spoonie Radio Ep 15: Jarred Younger (see also Courtney Craig)
 * 2016, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: Can We Find Answers in the Brain? - Solve CFS Webinar
 * 2016, Younger Lab YouTube Channel: Series of ongoing talks on the work of the lab
 * 2016, Dr. Jarred Younger: Cutting Edge Research on CFS, Neuroinflammation, Pain, and Fatigue

Learn more

 * 2015, The Neuroinflammation Man: Jarred Younger on Inflammation, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Cort Johnson)
 * 2015, New Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Lab Opens: Jarred Younger Talks (Cort Johnson)
 * 2016, Prisoners of Pain - UAB magazine (Spring 2016)
 * 2016, Self Hacked on Dr Younger
 * 2016, Younger Lab YouTube Channel
 * 2016, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Research Center Makes Good (Cort Johnson)