Coexistence of cerebral hypometabolism and neuroinflammation in the thalamo-limbic-brainstem region in young women with FSS, 2020, Ouchi et al

Full title: Coexistence of cerebral hypometabolism and neuroinflammation in the thalamo-limbic-brainstem region in young women with functional somatic syndrome

Note: Due to vague selection criteria this may, or may not, be an investigation into ME.

Open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13550-020-00617-1

 

why carry on calling it fss if they have actually found the route cause of symptoms . are they to lazy to change diagnosis .

 

I have only skimmed the article but I think they actually use the terms FSS* and MUS in the way they should be used, neutrally, as in "here is something we can't yet explain with the tests we've used to date - so let's look a bit closer with some new tests to see if there isn't something after all".

* I mistyped this first as FFS

 

Another one for the list of "scientists who have brilliant names". If only this person was writing on chronic pain instead...