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    Subcortical brain segment volumes in Gulf War Illness and ME/CFS (Martinez Addiego et al., 2021)

    Subcortical brain segment volumes in Gulf War Illness and ME/CFS (Martinez Addiego et al., 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024320521007359 From the team of James Baraniuk, this paper looks at the size of certain brain regions in ME/cfs, Gulf War Illness, and...
  2. Pyrrhus

    Second study might confirm neuroinflammation in ME subcortical brain

    Many of you will remember the landmark Japanese study from 2014 that used PET tracers to detect and image neuroinflammation in the brains of ME patients. Previously, no one had the technology to detect and image neuroinflammation in ME, as standard MRI's are totally unable to detect or image...
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    • basal ganglia brainstem hippocampus https://forums.phoenixrising.me/attachments/1626821645674-png.44076/ hypothalamus me/cfs neuroinflammation pet subcortical thalamus
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