I will add that that study used a PET radiotracer that was developed in the 1980s and isn't as specific as the second generation ones that have...
Perhaps the act of death has a large impact on glial cells such that autopsies mightn't be the best way to study them. Apparently we can see large...
I really appreciate you pointing it out, it is my misguided assumption that the researchers would have a good understanding of the basics but I...
We are only now starting to gain the tools that are sensitive enough to know what the pathology of less overtly severe clinical symptoms are....
This has always been bizarre to me. When I first got sick I had a Vo2 max in the mid to high 70s (as a lightweight rower). Now that I have ME and...
The authors say "The ear lobe, which is devoid of vagal innervation, was chosen as the site of stimulation in the sham group. Patients were...
I'm not sure if this answers the question but I did find this in a review paper titled "The semantics of microglia activation: neuroinflammation,...
That is one of the things I find compelling about this theory. It offers an explanation why a number of seemly different unconnected triggers...
I don't know if I have missed something but it seems like there is much literature that certain viral infections can cause glial activation. I...
This makes sense in some cases but surely it is possible to have changes in the brain that do not result in clearly apparent issues like...
If the PET portion of this study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.19.563117v1?ct= were to be replicated in ME, perhaps with a...
I participated in this study in the Long Covid arm but I fulfill the criteria and consider myself to have ME/CFS as well. I was not located in...
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