Here's a link to the autopsy-work I was talking about:
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/?p=3765 Been a while since I last perused it though - not that I recall there being much to peruse...
I think as Bob mentioned earlier in the thread, we need to consider 'inflammation' and what might constitute a validation of 'encephalomyelitis' as well as or in addition to what might constitute inflammation of the brain and/or spinal cord.
I mean, hell, taking Ibuprofen could for all I know help both a sprain and brain inflammation!
Silly I know, but nevertheless not all inflammation constitutes/validates neurological inflammation of course.
Whether or not the paper at the start of this thread adds something to the debate I don't know (haven't read it), but Maes has produced previous research into depression and ME that I am aware of and I'm sure other studies exist. Be interesting (or perhaps not) to learn if he is treating folk and how and with what - being in Thailand he could probably do more than if he practised in the UK I expect (and I'm certainly not suggesting any treatment he might propose is necessarily a 'good thing' by any means).
FWIW I don't give a Rhesus whether or not 'inflammation' proves essentially of the same sort as seen in Depression as is found in ME. I would say though that I don't in my own experience believe that if what I do experience is in some way 'inflammation' that anti-depressants help very much/at all.