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  1. Andy

    Subcortical brain segment volumes in Gulf War Illness and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2021, Addiego et al

    Abstract Aims There is controversy about brain volumes in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Gulf War Illness (GWI). Subcortical regions were assessed because of significant differences in blood oxygenation level dependent signals in the midbrain between these...
  2. A

    Scientific American: Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain?, 2021, Kwon

    Interesting article - a lot if physiological/ psychiatric research but could be relevant subject for many other specialities. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain/
  3. cassava7

    Sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain, Eide et al, 2021

    Per Kristian Eide, Vegard Vinje, Are Hugo Pripp, Kent-Andre Mardal, Geir Ringstad Brain, Volume 144, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 863–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa443 Published: 23 March 2021 It remains an enigma why human beings spend one-third of their life asleep. Experimental...
  4. J

    Canada - Unknown brain disease in New Brunswick

    Maybe someone we know could do an inquiry and determine that it is psychological trauma. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/mystery-brain-disorder-baffles-canadian-medicine
  5. rvallee

    Functional and microstructural brain abnormalities, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction after mild COVID-19, 2021, Silva et al

    (Paragraphed for clarity) Although post-acute cognitive dysfunction and neuroimaging abnormalities have been reported after hospital discharge in patients recovered from COVID-19, little is known about persistent, long-term alterations in people without hospitalization. We conducted a...
  6. mango

    Activation of endogenous retroviruses during brain development causes an inflammatory response, 2021, Jönsson et al

    Activation of endogenous retroviruses during brain development causes an inflammatory response Marie E Jönsson, Raquel Garza, Yogita Sharma, Rebecca Petri, Erik Södersten, Jenny G Johansson, Pia A Johansson, Diahann AM Atacho, Karolina Pircs, Sofia Madsen, David Yudovich, Ramprasad...
  7. Hoopoe

    A New Theory for How Memories Are Stored in the Brain

    Summary: A new theory of memory visualizes the brain as an organic super-computer that runs complex binary code with neurons acting like mechanical computers. The theory is based on the discovery of the protein molecule, talin, which contains switch-like domains that change shape in response to...
  8. Andy

    Persistent Brainstem Dysfunction in Long-COVID: A Hypothesis, 2021, Shin Jie Yong

    Persistent Brainstem Dysfunction in Long-COVID: A Hypothesis Edited to shorter paragraphs for easier reading. Paywall, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00793
  9. John Mac

    Modulatory effects of cognitive exertion on regional functional connectivity of the salience network in women with ME/CFS: A pilot study, 2021, Manca

    https://www.jns-journal.com/article/S0022-510X(21)00019-8/fulltext
  10. Sly Saint

    Repeatability and reproducibility of in-vivo brain temperature measurements - 2020 Sharma,Younger et al

    This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.20220715v1
  11. Sly Saint

    NZ: The 2020 Brain Health Research Centre Lecture - Professor Warren Tate - 23 November 2020

    Split from the NZ News thread The 2020 Brain Health Research Centre Lecture Emeritus Professor Warren Tate will present the 2020 BHRC Lecture, entitled "Understanding the biological basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and its sudden increase in public profile...
  12. Andy

    Brain’s immune cells put the brakes on neurons

    Thought this was interesting. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02713-7
  13. Ravn

    Medical Express: Researchers identify key role of immune cells in brain infection (2020)

    In mice. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-key-role-immune-cells-brain.html An interesting bit from the very technical and way above my head paper the above is based on: immune cells get through the BBB into the brain even as the virus is being cleared by antiviral treatment, and the...
  14. John Mac

    Review Neuroimaging characteristics of ME/CFS: a systematic review. Shan et al. 2020

    Full Title: Neuroimaging characteristics of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): a systematic review. https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02506-6
  15. John Mac

    Using structural and functional MRI as a neuroimaging technique to investigate CFS/ME. Almutairi et al. 2020

    Full title: Using structural and functional MRI as a neuroimaging technique to investigate chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy: a systematic review. Authors: Basim Almutairi, Christelle Langley, Esther Crawley, Ngoc Jade Thai https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/8/e031672
  16. Hoopoe

    Analysis of cerebrovascular dysfunction caused by chronic social defeat in mice, 2020, Lehmann et al.

    NIH blog Psychological stress damages brain’s blood vessels by Brandon Levy https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2020/07/psychological-stress-damages-brain-s-blood-vessels
  17. Snow Leopard

    (2014) The Machine That Tried To Scan The Brain — In 1882

    Brain scanning, 19th century style! https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882 Also notably, Angelo Mosso wrote a textbook on fatigue (La fatica) in 1891, the ideas of which have been repeatedly (re)"discovered" over the decades since.
  18. Andy

    Microglia and macrophage metabolism in CNS injury and disease: The role of immunometabolism in neurodegeneration and neurotrauma, 2020, Gensel et al

    Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488620301412
  19. Andy

    Alternative substrate metabolism depends on cerebral metabolic state following traumatic brain injury, 2020, Greco et al

    In rats. Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488620301205
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