COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) mirror the same effects on the brain structure as discovered by Griffith University.

COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) mirror the same effects on the brain structure as discovered by Griffith University. Using the ultra hi field MRI (7 Tesla) in a worlds first researchers have been able to show that in both patient groups the brain stem is larger.

Dr Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Director of Griffith’s National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases and also works at the university’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland wanted to demonstrate potential consistencies between the ME/CFS and Long COVID patients.

ME/CFS and Long COVID patients could finally have an answer to one of our many questions, one of the their findings was that brainstem dysfunction could contribute to our neurological, cardiorespiratory symptoms, and movement disorders.

Over the past few days information about the report has been coming out in some news publications – read the article in Griffith News here https://news.griffith.edu.au/2023/03/14/worlds-strongest-mri-investigates-covid-and-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-chronic-fatigue-impacts-on-the-brain/

As a sufferer of Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis I am thankful that we have seen an up turn in the amount of news articles and medical papers. Do I wish that ME patients did not have to go through a global pandemic in order for our illness to be taken seriously, absolutely!

We have lost far too many members of our ME family to this awful illness and 2023 has do be the year that things change. No family should have to see the things that our families see.

You can read a copy of the full report here Brainstem volume changes in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID patients

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