Jay Goldstein

Dr. Jay A. Goldstein was a prominent ME/CFS clinician and researcher located in southern California, USA. Trained as a psychiatrist, he taught at the University of California, Irvine. He was director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Institutes of Anaheim Hills and Beverly Hills. He organized a symposium in Los Angeles on CFIDS and fibromyalgia. When Stephen Straus, in 1989, published that CFS was likely a psychiatric illness, Jay Goldstein vehemently criticized Straus's work, saying "To be quite frank, I could not believe a research paper could be this bad and be published."

In 2020, Goldstein published a book Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis stating that, in his opinion, chronic fatigue syndrome was a limbic encephalopathy in a dysregulated psychoneuroimmunologic network.

Books

 * 1992, The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome edited by Byron Hyde, Jay Goldstein, and Paul Levine
 * 1993, Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis
 * 1996, Betrayal by the Brain: The Neurologic Basis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome, and Related Neural Network Disorders
 * 2004, Tuning the Brain: Principles and Practice of Neurosomatic Medicine
 * 2020, Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis

Notable studies

 * 1995, The Assessment of Vascular Abnormalities in Late Life Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Brain SPECT: Comparison with Late Life Major Depressive Disorder (Abstract)
 * 2000, The Pathophysiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Neurosomatic Disorders

Learn more

 * Jay A. Goldstein, M.D.’S Unique Treatment Protocol For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia (from ProHealth)
 * Dr. Jay Goldstein: A-Z Treatments (from CFSTreatmentGuide)
 * Jay Goldstein's Treatment Protocol for Physicians (from National CFIDS Foundation)