ME/CFS Skeptic
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Had another look at the results.
Nakatomi et al. reported huge differences in BPND of [11C]-PK11195 between ME/CFS and controls, for example an effect size of 2.4 standard deviations for the midbrain. In all brain regions, ME/CFS patients had much higher values.
In the study by Raijmakers et al. ME/CFS patients had lower values in all brain regions. These differences were not statistically significant but this could be due to the low sample size. The figure that reports standard deviations shows that the differences weren't exactly small either.
So the results are directly opposite.
Nakatomi et al. reported huge differences in BPND of [11C]-PK11195 between ME/CFS and controls, for example an effect size of 2.4 standard deviations for the midbrain. In all brain regions, ME/CFS patients had much higher values.
In the study by Raijmakers et al. ME/CFS patients had lower values in all brain regions. These differences were not statistically significant but this could be due to the low sample size. The figure that reports standard deviations shows that the differences weren't exactly small either.
So the results are directly opposite.
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