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Aside from certain memory effects, like "word finding," it's hard for me to disentangle "brain fog" from the effects of "dizziness." The dizziness seems to put me at a sort of "remove" from what I'm seeing. I suspect this is due to a failure of the eyes to converge properly, leading to the...

If the treatment that one endorses requires one to put the most positive spin on one's perceived results, how can others determine whether the endorsement itself is not an act of putting the most positive spin one's perceived results? The very method of the treatment undermines the ability to...

This is pretty interesting. By analyzing microRNA from ME patients, they found 4 distinct groups, which also had distinct responses to stress/exercise. Group 1 had the most severe reaction and was the only group in which vertigo/dizziness and "mental fogginess" was a major reaction. When...

Does any one know if this is likely to show up on YouTube or elsewhere? The high data rate of uncompressed streaming made it impossible to watch on my slow internet hookup . It also didn't help that I took Spanish in high school... and German in college. :))

Got a still image at 10:41 Pacific Daylight Time.

I just noticed the same thing. I don't know much about how YouTube works, but can the people who post videos go in and remove any comment they want?

Wow... this is powerful stuff. Just watching that testimonial cured me! [What a savings!]

It could be that an enterovirus infection can permanently alter the microbiome, and it's the changes in the microbiome's constituents that are promoting ME long after the virus is gone. The paper below describes a daily longitudinal study of the microbiomes of two people over the course of a...

Dr. Komaroff's online article in JAMA currently has about: 31,000 views. (07/12/19) 35,000 views. 42,000 views. 47,000 views. 65,000 views. (07/24/19) 70,840 views. (08/12/19) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2737854

He is like a beautiful ocean liner. No, wait, that's the worst analogy ever. OK, the second worst.

I was curious about the so-called "international criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome" mentioned in the PACE trial abstract. Since the PACE trial was published in 2011, it seems unlikely that the "international criteria" it mentions are the International Consensus Criteria (ICC), which was...

If science teaches us anything, it's that it's always possible to MAKE new friends...

Unfortunately, I've got another conference to attend on the same date. We will be discussing whether it is possible to evaluate a single slice of a system without taking the whole into account. After a joint presentation we will be breaking up into smaller groups of 6, 8, 10 or 12 researchers.

I remember watching a documentary about the Vietnam War in which a high ranking member of the US government, a senator, congressman, or possibly even Vice President Hubert Humphrey, said that they changed their position on the war during a heated conversation with someone who was opposed to it...

Needless to say, they should be in the business of doing everything they can think of to try to falsify their hypothesis.

From the paper: Bolding mine.

From the paper: Which of course raises the question, "What are these triggers?" I don't think the paper addresses this, but rather sets out to show what hypothetically could happen if 'cytosolic tryptophan concentration' got too high. The paper does mention stochastic (i.e. random)...

Yes - "epidemic" can even be used quite loosely, such as in "we're experiencing an epidemic of diabetes." More to the point, you can have an "epidemic" of, say, cancer as a result a of geographic exposure to a toxin, radiation, parasites, etc., none of which is communicable in the way a virus or...

Well, now "trending" above it is... Biomarker Test for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [I suspect "trending" is just a matter of cycling through other articles with "chronic fatigue" in the title.]

Roughly 80% of those diagnosed with autoimmune diseases are female. This article puts the figure at 77%. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328995/ I'm not sure if that's collectively or if it holds true for each autoimmune disease. On the other hand, ~80% of autism cases are male...