Basant Puri

Basant K. Puri, Professor, is a member of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College School of Medicine, UK. He is, also, a part-time consultant and medical researcher at Breakspear Medical, Hertfordshire, UK.

Puri heads the Lipid Neuroscience Group at Imperial College, London, and authored of over 130 peer-reviewed medical and scientific papers and over 30 books. He used proton neurospectroscopy to identify a differential variation in choline levels in the brains of ME patients, suggesting that there are insufficient levels of fatty acids chains in the brains of ME patients.

Talks and interviews

 * 2006, Speaker at the 1st Invest in ME International ME Conference on Lipid Neuroscience - an overall picture of (and links to) other treatments/research - (Video)

Studies related to ME/CFS

 * 2006, Proton and 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy in the study of membrane phospholipids and fatty acid intervention in schizophrenia, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and dyslexia. - (Abstract)
 * 2007, Review - Current research priorities in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: disease mechanisms, a diagnostic test and specific treatments - (Full text)
 * 2007, Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and the pathophysiology of myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome) - (Full text)
 * 2009, An in vivo proton neurospectroscopy study of cerebral oxidative stress in myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome) - (Abstract)
 * 2011, Increased tenderness in the left third intercostal space in adult patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis: a controlled study - (Abstract)
 * 2012, Regional grey and white matter volumetric changes in myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome): a voxel-based morphometry 3 T MRI study - (Full text)
 * 2017, A Comparison of Neuroimaging Abnormalities in Multiple Sclerosis, Major Depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis): is There a Common Cause? - (Full text)
 * 2018, A Molecular Neurobiological Approach to Understanding the Aetiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease) with Treatment Implications - (Full text)
 * 2019, Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome: how could the illness develop? - (Full text)
 * 2019, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: From Pathophysiological Insights to Novel Therapeutic Opportunities - (Abstract)

Book chapter

 * 2009, "Serial structural MRI analysis and proton and 31PMR spectroscopy in the investigation of cerebral fatty acids in major depressive disorder, Huntington's disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis and in forensic schizophrenic patients" Chapter in Omega-3 Fatty Acids, the Brain and Retina - (Abstract)