mri

Not sure how much of interest this will be: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gadolinium-concerns-1.5239055 From the article: Gadolinium alone is toxic to humans, but in GBCAs, the element is bonded with other substances, which the body expels within 24 to 36 hours after the injection...

I tried looking to see if there’s already a thread for this couldn’t find one but my search skills are a bit ropey please delete if there is one http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cricbristol/research/fatigue-research/ Crawley and others at Bristol doing fMRIs on CFS and MS folks

The aim of this thread is to collect a list of brain imaging studies of ME patients, with links to threads on each study. We have in our library a thread by @Woolie that explains the different types of neuroimaging and what to look out for in assessing the quality of a study: Brain Studies of...

Quote from http://neuroimmune.cornell.edu/news/, link to recruitment flyer, http://neuroimmune.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/WCM-Recruitment-Flyer.pdf

Christina Mueller, Joanne C. Lin, Sulaiman Sheriff, Andrew A. Maudsley, Jarred W. Younger Behind a paywall https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11682-018-0029-4

Severe posterior hypometabolism but normal perfusion in a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis revealed by PET/MRI. Sahbai S1, Kauv P2, Abrivard M3, Blanc-Durand P4, Aoun-Sebati M3, Emsen B4, Luciani A5, Hodel J2,5, Authier FJ3, Itti E4. Author information 2018 Dec...

Review article is provisionally accepted and full text will be published soon Neuroinflammation and cytokines in ME/CFS: A critical review of research methods We argue that the vast majority of ME/CFS neuroimaging has failed to use optimal techniques for studying brainstem, despite its...

Brain abnormalities in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: Evaluation by diffusional kurtosis imaging and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging. Kimura Y1, Sato N1, Ota M2,3, Shigemoto Y1, Morimoto E1, Enokizono M1, Matsuda H4, Shin I5, Amano K6, Ono H7, Sato W7...

Nature: The world's strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits Researchers look to scanners with 10.5-tesla magnets and beyond for unprecedented detail about the brain. ... Scans done with 7-T machines have also revealed more about the symptoms and progression of multiple...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158218302237

Brain volume loss in Multiple Sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity predicts future disability. Brain atrophy has recently been recognized as a pivotal biomarker that is closely associated to disability in patients with MS...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200068

Open access at http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/8/3/42

Full paper (via sci-hub)

Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11682-018-9897-x

Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00221-018-5301-8

"In 1996, when Mary Lou Jepsen was in the home stretch of a Ph.D. in engineering at Brown University, she became so ill that eventually she concluded her only option was to drop out of school and move back home to die. Her sickness was a mystery. She had all the signs of AIDS, but she was HIV...

via https://cfsme-registry.info

The author has ME. " 6 February 2018 — 11:00pm As recently as 1921, MS (multiple sclerosis) was erroneously considered more common in men. By the late 1940s, a more even gender split was presumed. By 1960 it was posited that women might actually be slightly more prone to the condition. With the...

Paper is from 2014, I thought I'd post this as it comes up in the Q&A with Dr Montoya. Full text available at http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.14141079 Press release from Stanford...