Long COVID shows why patients need assessment, respect and careful support that includes the brain-body connection.

(Daisy-Daisy/iStock/Getty Images) Our understanding of the human brain is experiencing a watershed moment. The sewerage gates ...

ME/CFS brain fog is measurable on an MRI - new research links impaired glymphatic waste clearance to sleep disruption and ...

An estimated two million people in England and Scotland were experiencing symptoms of long COVID as of March 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics. Of these, 1.5 million said the ...

The brain's waste clearance system is impaired in people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome ...

Bethesda, MD — New research into the mechanisms underlying myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID is aimed at identifying potential approaches to treatment of the ...

Researchers used MRI to assess glymphatic function in ME/CFS. They found impaired brain waste clearance linked to brain fog and poor sleep, suggesting a mechanistic driver and potential diagnostic ...

Women with ME/CFS tend to have more symptoms and co-occurring conditions than men, according to initial results from the world's largest study of the disease. It has long been known that women are ...

Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity. He is also the director of the NIH Center for Solutions for ME/CFS ...