The impact of chronic fatigue syndrome on cognitive functioning in adolescents

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This study is also interesting in regard to cognitive functioning. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158215001618

 

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What, more than 17 million patients couldn't have told them this? Sigh. I think we need studies in adults too, with controls matched for age and other factors.

Remember that the opinion or thoughts of the patient are only worth to bulk up a psychiatric/psychological recommendation and rarely to cause research of actual physical deterioration or illness. Any idiot can conclude that an illness that screws up sleep/and or is obviously affecting the CNS because of symptomatology will make the patient dumber, but scientists often "need" evidence of the obvious. I find these kind of studies useful nonetheless, because people DO need proof of the obvious, because they bathe in wishful ignorance and lack of empathy.