by admin on September 24, 2011
Quick hits from International ME/CFS Conference in Ottawa. Follow CortJohnson on Twitter tomorrow for more….
#IACFSME - over the past year 2 NIH CFS heads, Vivian Pinn the head of the Office of Women;s Health, CDC CFS Chief and Wanda Jones have left
#IACFSME - Mangan’s retirement is a big loss to the
#ME/CFS community. He showed commitment and initiative we hadn’t seen before…
#IACFSME- name of the site to ME/CFS, engaged the patient community & headed up the CASA project is retiring Oct 31st due to family matters
#IACFSME - Dennis Mangan, who revitalized and enlarged the CFS Working Group at NIH, produced the State of Knowledge Workshop, changed the.
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by admin on September 24, 2011
Quick hits from the first two days of the Conference. Follow CortJohnson on Twitter tomorrow for more
#IACFS/ME -
#Clauw reports
#interstitial cytisus research community acknowledges they were all wrong; its all the central nervous system.
by admin on September 26, 2011
Quick hits from the IACFS/ME Ottawa Conference
#IACFSME - on last day room is quite full. Immune session begins with 3 positive studies on
#CFS fr. Australia (Bond), CDC and Lights (Utah)
#IACFSME - brain blood flow study finds significantly reduced blood flows – anterior cingulate region may explain increased lactate in brain
#IACFSME - findings validate strong earlier interest in anterior cingulate region by UK ME researchers
#IACFSME - confusing Jones CDC study suggests too many signals from body making their way to the brain overwhelming it
#IACFSME - Jones proposes that sense of self is interrupted by constant barrage of signals from body….self becomes body sensations in
#CFS
#IACFSME - Clauw proposes sensory processing is key problem in FM and related disorders.
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