2018

http://www.sleep-journal.com/article/S1389-9457(18)30017-0/fulltext?cc=y= Simon M. Collin, Tom Norris, Paul Gringras, Peter S. Blair, Kate Tilling, Esther Crawley Abstract Objective /Background: Sleep abnormalities are characteristic of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, also known as ‘ME’), but...

Hello all, I'm pleased to report that our major critique and reanalysis of the PACE trial has been accepted for publication in BMC Psychology. Title: Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and...

Mitochondria are apparently now part of the psychosomatic construct! https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/fulltext/2018/02000/Psychological_Stress_and_Mitochondria___A.3.aspx Thanks to Amanda on Facebook for finding this.

It claims to have looked at twins with one twin with CFS but talks about Chronic Fatigue, so how useful to us this could be is questionable. Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18585-3

Open access at https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12967-018-1397-7

Open access at http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/30/archdischild-2017-314138 if you can stomach it. Crawley continues her "chronic disabling fatigue" = ME fiction "Here we use data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to investigate whether levels and...

This thread was merged with an earlier thread started before the paper was posted. I've got no more info that this right now, but am feeling a bit brain-dead. They said that they paper was published yesterday. I've been having trouble with the British Journal of Psychiatry's website, but...

Have had limited success with the search function here, so if this has been posted already, please delete. Abstract Link to full study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5365380/

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105318755264#articleShareContainer (Free full text - mentions PACE)

Note: deals with 'chronic fatigue' rather than specifically looking at ME/CFS - the high baseline level of 'chronic fatigue' in the control group suggests it's a broad definition that's been used. Posting here anyway as my own initiating infection was Giardia...

Hello from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative. We want to share our latest news and research with you, but we also want to respect your space and not spam the forums. In order to do that, we are starting a monthly thread where will we add all of the latest news from SMCI. Throughout the month we plan...

The new German "guideline tiredness" was published today. ME doesn't get its own guideline in Germany, only a chapter in the "guideline tiredness". It's basically the German NICE guideline for ME. It was last updated in 2011...

http://www.virology.ws/2018/01/30/trial-by-error-a-letter-to-archives-of-disease-in-childhood/ Trial By Error: A Letter to Archives of Disease in Childhood 30 JANUARY 2018 By David Tuller, DrPH

Chronic fatigue syndrome in Chinese middle-school students Abstract (my bolding): The objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and its associated factors in middle-school students in Suzhou, China. From September 2010 to January 2011...

Here is a lecture from prof. Olav Mella from a conference in Oslo November 2017. Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English Duration: 26 minutes

Source: Solve ME/CFS Initiative Date: February 15, 2018 Time: 18:00-19:00 UTC URL: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6998778927043568387 2018 Kickoff: 5 Biological Systems Impacted by ME/CFS ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Zaher Nahle, Chief Scientific Officer...

CATO-senteret, a rehabilitation center for children and adolescents with a biopsychosocial approach to ME, invites health personell to a conference titled "When the body refuse". I noticed both prof. Wyller and Lillebeth Larun (from the Cochrane review group on ME) among the speakers. From...

A new paper from Maureen Hanson's group https://peerj.com/articles/4282/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29357332

http://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/2/1/2 Restricted Spatial Windows of Visibility in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Nadia S. Ahmed, Irene Gottlob, Frank A. Proudlock and Claire V. Hutchinson * Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester...