2017

Cytokine signatures in chronic fatigue syndrome patients: a Case Control Study and the effect of anakinra treatment Abstract Background Cytokine disturbances have been suggested to be associated with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) for decades. Methods Fifty...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29283590 http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2017-57776-001.pdf

New post from David Tuller as a taster to a full blog looking more closely at Crawley's School Absence Study and the way in which BMJ Open have been less than honest in the way they have dealt with complaints about the 'trial' and the way in which they have presented the 'facts' of the case to...

Positive and negative affect mediate the bidirectional relationship between emotional processing and symptom severity and impact in irritable bowel syndrome " Abstract Introduction Individuals with IBS report higher levels of psychological distress compared to healthy controls. Distress has...

A test of the adaptive network explanation of functional disorders using a machine learning analysis of symptoms Author Information: Melidis C, Denham SL, Hyland ME. University of Plymouth Abstract The classification and etiology of functional disorders is controversial. Evidence supports both...

Environmental Exposures as a Potential Underlying Factor in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; a Case Report An Environmental Medicine perspective on a complex syndrome; Could toxic exposures be the cause? http://www.journals.ke-i.org/index.php/mra/article/view/1573/1626

http://www.virology.ws/2017/12/23/trial-by-error-bristols-complaint-to-berkeley/ Christmas Eve for me... can't think of a better way to spend it that reading about a failed attempt by Bristol Uni to apply pressure on Berkeley to shut Tuller up. A shame that we don't get to see the letter they...

URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755296617300601 Greater specificity of activity memories in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: Implications for exercise-based treatment Maryanne Martin, Iana Alexeeva(*) - Department of Experimental Psychology, Medical...

Medscape has made a top 10-list of most searched for and most read subjects in 2017. Each subject gets a short introduction. CFS came on a 6th place and is described with the most common symptoms and a mention of research on PDH-enzyme. The findings suggests that a reduction in the amino acids...

Full text pre-print in PDF form - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/12/22/237958.full.pdf

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(17)30841-3/pdf posted by @Sly Saint in another thread, so it's getting it's own thread here.

Day one, part one is linked below and is the first video in the playlist covering the two day meeting.

RME Sverige Published on Dec 19, 2017 Geraldine (Jo) Cambridge, PhD, Dep. Medicine, University College, London on B-cell depletion with Rituximab.

From #MEAction's mailshot PDF report, 32 pages, http://www.meaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MEAction_2017_Annual_Report.pdf

Perhaps some of you remember the study Housebound versus non housebound patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome from last year by Tricia Pendergrast, Abigail Brown, Madison Sunnquist, Rachel Janice, Julia L. Newton, Elin Bolle Strand and Leonard A. Jason...

For what its worth. PDF download, http://www.ijcem.com/files/ijcem0053166.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29237442 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4968-2

15 December 2017 To whom it may concern at TEDxBristol: As an ME patient, it was with great interest that I watched Professor Esther Crawley's TEDxBristol talk "Disrupting Your View of ME" on 2 November 2017. Unfortunately, the contents of that talk did not seem to comply with the standards...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29231339

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29231630 More at the links below. English: http://tidsskriftet.no/en/2017/12/debatt/tenuous-link-between-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-pyruvate-dehydrogenase-deficiency Norwegian...