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A "year in review" article for advocacy done by Solve ME:
2025 Advocacy in Review: What You Helped Push Forward
2025 Advocacy in Review: What You Helped Push Forward
USA: News from Solve ME
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Interview with neuroimaging researcher Zack Shan
"What my research now is, we have these brain MRI findings. Can we combine with smart sensors and biomarkers? Eventually, what we find can apply to a real patient without MRI data. Because, for research, we can collect rich phenotype data, and we already have this rich phenotyping data for research purposes. We can apply it to a new, single patient with probably just one or two, let's say, smart sensor, or biomarker. You don't necessarily have to have the range. [...] For real live, or daily clinic, we can just use one or two modalities."
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"We have logged the dynamic brain blood flow, autonomic function, and neuroinflammation in ME/CFS. As a group, ME/CFS patients always show clear anomalies across these systems, yet none of these measures alone define the disease. So what that tells me is, ME/CFS is not a single disease, but it is a disease with different biological subtypes. "
"What my research now is, we have these brain MRI findings. Can we combine with smart sensors and biomarkers? Eventually, what we find can apply to a real patient without MRI data. Because, for research, we can collect rich phenotype data, and we already have this rich phenotyping data for research purposes. We can apply it to a new, single patient with probably just one or two, let's say, smart sensor, or biomarker. You don't necessarily have to have the range. [...] For real live, or daily clinic, we can just use one or two modalities."
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"We have logged the dynamic brain blood flow, autonomic function, and neuroinflammation in ME/CFS. As a group, ME/CFS patients always show clear anomalies across these systems, yet none of these measures alone define the disease. So what that tells me is, ME/CFS is not a single disease, but it is a disease with different biological subtypes. "