Fungal spores: hazardous to health?
Abstract: Fungi have long been known to affect human well being in various ways, including disease of essential crop plants, …
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Chronic fatigue syndrome does exist. Changes of biological parameters are measurable
Abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome is a debilitating condition characterised by neurocognitive and somatic symptoms. Although many patients report an infectious onset, …
Differences in adrenal steroid profile in chronic fatigue syndrome, in depression and in health
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Hyperactivity and hypoactivity of the HPA have been forwarded as of pathophysiological relevance in major depressive disorder and …
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The chronic fatigue and neurasthenia in the student population
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in community studies, primary care and other medical setting. In …
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Critical life events, infections, and symptoms during the year preceding chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): an examination of CFS patients and subjects with a nonspecific life crisis
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the sequence of psychosocial events and infections preceding the onset …
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Is depression associated with immune activation?
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Some research immunologists have suggested that major depression amd chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are characterized by immune activation. To test …
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One Test Too Many: Toward an Integrated Approach to Psychosomatic Disorders
Abstract: Conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, and several others belong to the group of disorders in which both physiologic …
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The fatigue syndrome in autoimmune thyroiditis with polyglandular activation of autoimmunity
Abstract: The authors compared in a group of 118 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis and a positive antibody titre against ovaries …
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Dysthymia: clinical picture, extent of overlap with chronic fatigue syndrome, neuropharmacological considerations, and new therapeutic vistas
Abstract: Dysthymia, as defined in the American Psychiatric Association and International Classification of Mental Disorders, refers to a prevalent form …
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Desmopressin augments pituitary-adrenal responsivity to corticotropin-releasing hormone in subjects with chronic fatigue syndrome and in healthy volunteers
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and vasopressin (VP) are the two principal neuropeptide regulators of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in man, …
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