Andrew
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Informally I would say: ME patients have neurological signs/symptoms (ME is a neurological disease after all), ME patients tend to have overt inflammation (as in "encephalomyelitis"), ME patients tend to have severe HPA-axis dysregulation (usually non responsive to hormonal supplementation), ME patients tend to have severe brain symptoms (Dr Peterson says severe patients have cognitive dysfunction as their main symptom).
A comprehensive study of the Tahoe cluster found that CFS patients have neuro problems.
The whole idea that we don't have neuro problems comes from the CDC, and gets promoted by people who want to dissociate themselves from the CFS name. But it is not accurate in light of what the founding cluster records show.
http://www.annals.org/content/116/2/103.short