Gudrun Lange

Gudrun Lange, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist who works with Dr. Benjamin Natelson at the Pain & Fatigue Study Center, New York, New York. There she heads studies on brain fog in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

Committees and Boards

 * a member of the Board of directors of Simmaron Research, a Nevada-based nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific research on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.


 * Dec 2017 - Dec 2021, a voting member of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


 * 2017-2018, Chair of the CNS Imaging subgroup 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.

Notable studies

 * 2001, Health-Related Personality Variables in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis (Abstract)
 * 2002, A status report on chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2004, Cognitive Function Index for Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 2005, Objective evidence of cognitive complaints in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a BOLD fMRI study of verbal working memory (Abstract)
 * 2013, Attention network test: assessment of cognitive function in chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2011, Safety and efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation in fibromyalgia: a phase I/II proof of concept trial
 * 2015, Effect of Milnacipran Treatment on Ventricular Lactate in Fibromyalgia: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial (Full Text)
 * 2017, Multi-Site Clinical Assessment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (MCAM): Design and Implementation of a Prospective/Retrospective Rolling Cohort Study (Full Text)
 * 2017, Multimodal and simultaneous assessments of brain and spinal fluid abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome and the effects of psychiatric comorbidity (Full Text)

Clinic location

 * Phillips Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 5D
 * Beth Israel Medical Center
 * 10 Union Square East
 * New York, NY 10003-3314

Talks and interviews

 * 2009, 9th International IACFS/ME Research and Clinical Conference: Talk Title - Assessing ME/CFS Brain Functioning
 * 11 April 2012, "Cognition & CFS: What Do We Know?" by the CFIDS Association of America with speakers Gudren Lange and Suzanne Vernon, introduced by Kim McCleary

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * Pain & Fatigue Study Center Bio Page
 * LinkedIn

Learn more

 * Pain & Fatigue Study Center Homepage