Queensland scientists have used the strongest MRI machine in the world to reveal apparent similarities between how COVID-19 and chronic fatigue syndrome affect the brain. Read more about the research here:
Queensland scientists have used the strongest MRI machine in the world to reveal apparent similarities between how COVID-19 and chronic fatigue syndrome affect the brain.
“It provides extremely crisp images that can pick up abnormalities that might not be detected on other MRIs,” he said. Detailed scans of a long-COVID patient and an ME/CFS patient show similar structures in the brain stem.Recognised long-COVID symptoms can include fatigue, brain fog and breathing difficulties, and these are also seen in ME/CFS.
He said he and his colleagues were actively working to recruit more patients for the study, to see if they matched the initial findings.
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