Principal Investigator
Prof. Jarred Younger
Institution
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Many of the characteristic symptoms of ME/CFS suggest that the immune system is activated in the brains of people with the illness, leading to the release of inflammatory chemicals.
This neuroinflammation is known to cause a variety of symptoms, including fatigue, pain sensitivity, cognitive problems and sleep disturbances, all of which are common in people with ME/CFS. But how might this occur?
The central hypothesis behind a newly funded project, led by Prof. Jarred Younger at the University of Alabama, is that activated immune cells from elsewhere in the body infiltrate the brain, so driving these symptoms of ME/CFS.
