[CO-CURE] ACT, RES, MED: Komaroff and M.E

[Guest guest]

During the question-and-answer period of his recent lecture given to the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association, Dr. Komaroff was asked whether he would consider CFS to be a neurological illness. This was his answer:

"I would certainly say … that there is now abundant evidence of measurable abnormalities in the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system in people with this illness.

"That makes it neurological. That's why I think it makes sense, as Dr. Gurwitz said, to call it Myalgic Ecephalomyelitis or Encephalopathy, because I think those two words adequately classify or describe an underlying biology that tests have shown to be the case."

Dr. Komaroff is Simcox/Clifford/Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Publications. He was a co-author on both the Holmes (1988) and the Fukuda (1994) definitions of CFS.

For more from a fascinating lecture and question-answer session, go to the Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association website:

http://www.masscfids.org/news-a-events/2/221

Schweitzer

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