Chronic Fatigue Syndrome set for diagnostic overhaul: the latest findings point to the role of brain inflammation

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baffling-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-set-for-diagnostic-overhaul/

Baffling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Set for Diagnostic Overhaul
Researchers might soon redefine the mysterious condition, while the latest findings point to the role of brain inflammation
May 16, 2014 |By Katherine Harmon Courage

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A change might be on the distant horizon, however, thanks in part to a new study of the brains of patients living with CFS.

Doctors have long suspected brain inflammation as a potential cause, but no definite traces of it had been detected. New research, in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, shows for the first time distinct increases in inflammation in particular regions of CFS patients' brains.

http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/21/jnumed.113.131045.abstract
Neuroinflammation in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: An 11C-(R)-PK11195 PET Study J Nucl Med 2014 jnumed.113.131045 published ahead of print March 24, 2014 (10.2967/jnumed.113.131045).