fatigue in MS patients connected to brain damage

[WillowJ]

http://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.c...gue-in-ms-patients-to-localized-brain-damage/

“Lesional, atrophy, and DT MR measures of global damage to brain, white matter, and GM did not differ between fatigued and nonfatigued patients.

Compared with nonfatigued patients and control subjects, fatigued patients experienced atrophy of the right side of the accumbens, right inferior temporal gyrus, left superior frontal gyrus, and forceps major.

They also had lower fractional anisotropy of forceps major, left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and right anterior thalamic radiation,” said the authors.

fatigue comparison patients in MS studies are sometimes ME/CFS, but I can't tell whether that's the case here.

 

[WillowJ]

another article:
http://www.hcplive.com/articles/Fatigue-in-Multiple-Sclerosis-Could-be-Pinpointed-to-Brain-Region

that links to the study:
http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/radiol.14140417

which doesn't say anything specific about the controls in the abstract

 

[alex3619]

MS and ME blur together. There are patients that clearly have one or the other, but there are some in the middle who get thrown from one diagnosis to the other, in both directions, as more is discovered about their illness.