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SPECT resolution is poor, as compared to something like PET. ME is pretty clearly not caused by gross anatomical brain issues, at least not ones that will show up on an individual MRI or CT scan. Yes, you can find differences using MRI voxel based morphometry or fMRI looking at large numbers of...

They have though. There was an outbreak in Norway in the 2000s that had several papers published on it. It was caused by a sewage leak into the water supply. I think the reason why there aren’t several every few years though is simply down to sanitation. Vastly improved sanitation, both in...

This is a bit ridiculous. ME patients have committed suicide due to lack of adequate pain management. It’s called myalgic encephalomyelitis for a reason. It’s a lifelong, incurable disease that can cause unremitting pain. My bet is that he didn’t even prescribe the seroquel or klonopin...

Yes, this has been compared in at least one study. Depression did not affect the brainstem as ME clearly did.

Doctors don’t typically read scans, radiologist do, and provide a report that the doctor can read and interpret. If you could provide an example of where Hyde said it’s easy to do we can take a look at that. Yes, Hyde relies on a radiology expert from South America to take in the DICOM data...

Respectfully, I would recommend keeping the name Montoya and Lipkin entirely out of this thread. The abuse they allegedly engaged in has nothing to do with what Hyde, and several of his contemporaries (Myhill, Speight, Gordon, KDM) have been disciplined for and has absolutely nothing to do with...

If classically described ME is indeed caused by enterovirus infection of the brain, as the evidence supports, this would make ME and poliomyelitis cousin diseases. Numerous experts (Bruno, Dowsett, Behan) have stated that clinically, ME and post-polio syndrome are difficult or impossible to tell...

There are 3 such studies that show exactly this, and to date zero studies that refute it. There is no available way to find the virus in a living brain, so the cost of each study is one human life. And no, testing of CSF for virus is not an acceptable proxy. Enterovirus infection only produces...

Similar figure referenced in the ICC primer.

There is another form seen in the US outbreak in Texas that was largely biased towards dysautonomia symptoms that led the investigator towards the idea that it was very similar (to Iceland disease in his example) but different. I think in reality all these investigators were highly focused on...

Edwards work is later referenced in the early 90s by Professor Mowbray. It seems he was pretty convinced that ME muscle is normal and it’s actually a neuromuscular problem that produces Ramsay’s primary (and objective) sign of the disease. This is the view I subscribe to, it makes a lot more...