ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2018
Brain function characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome: A task fMRI study.
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- Mapping cerebral blood flow in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and orthostatic intolerance: insights from a systematic review.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Recent research in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an evidence map.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive impairment in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Neuroimaging characteristics of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): a systematic review.Journal of translational medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Imbalance of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurotransmitter Systems in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Predicting Potential Treatment Targets for Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Using Thalamic Seeding.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Evidence of White Matter Neuroinflammation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Diffusion-Based Neuroinflammation Imaging Study.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Short-term intrinsic connectivity changes induced by cognitive exertion in healthy participants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Central origin of fatigability in Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome revealed by multimodal neuroimaging.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- Resilience of Neural Networks Underlying the Stroop Effect in the Aftermath of Severe COVID-19: fMRI Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Review of Neuroimaging Methods in ME/CFS.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Brain network entropy, depression, and quality of life in people with traumatic brain injury and seizure disorders.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Comorbidities: Linked by Vascular Pathomechanisms and Vasoactive Mediators?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Subcortical and default mode network connectivity is impaired in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- ME/CFS and Long COVID share similar symptoms and biological abnormalities: road map to the literature.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Altered brain connectivity in Long Covid during cognitive exertion: a pilot study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in the Correlation between Fatigue Perception and Regional Gray Matter Volume in Healthy Adults: A Large-Scale Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Multimodal MRI of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A cross-sectional neuroimaging study toward its neuropathophysiology and diagnosis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Effects of the Prolong Life With Nine Turn Method (Yan Nian Jiu Zhuan) Qigong on Brain Functional Changes in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Terms of Fatigue and Quality of Life.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Aberrant functional brain network dynamics in patients with functional constipation.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
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Abstract
The mechanism underlying neurological dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is yet to be established. This study investigated the temporal complexity of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) changes in response to the Stroop task in CFS patients. 43 CFS patients (47.4 ± 11.8 yrs) and 26 normal controls (NCs, 43.4 ± 13.9 yrs) were included in this study. Their mental component summary (MCS) and physical component summary (PCS) from the 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire were recorded. Their Stroop colour-word task performance was measured by accuracy and response time (RT). The BOLD changes associated with the Stroop task were evaluated using a 2-level general linear model approach. The temporal complexity of the BOLD responses, a measure of information capacity and thus adaptability to a challenging environment, in each activated region was measured by sample entropy (SampEn). The CFS patients showed significantly longer RTs than the NCs (
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