Patients.*
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For the past 12 years, Dr. Natelson and his colleague have been doing one
study at a time looking at the brain as the cause of CFS. Very importantly,
the group has found that some CFS patients have abnormal spinal fluid,
problems doing neuro-psychological tests of cognitive function, and
abnormal brain imaging studies. Dr. Natelson's group has been approved to
do all these studies on the same patients.
If Dr. Natelson and his colleagues find that some patients have
abnormalities on all of these brain-related dimensions, that will mean that
a brain problem is the cause of CFS for those patients. That will make a
giant step forward in understanding the cause of CFS =96 at least for these
patients. Finding the cause is step #1 toward developing new treatments.
To allow us to move ahead, we are looking for CFS patients who either are
on no brain-active medicines or are willing to come off these medicines
with guidance from their doctor for a 2 week period. The research consists
of neuropsychological testing, brain imaging at the Cornell Imaging Center
on 71st St., and lumbar puncture.
Again, the way to participate is to fill out and send in the health screen
form at our website and/or call 212.844.6747. We also need healthy control
volunteers for the same studies. We reimburse healthy volunteers over $400
to participate in the entire study, including spinal tap. By healthy we
mean a person who reports being in good or excellent health and takes no
meds other than birth control pills or thyroid medication for a stable
thyroid inactivity.
Benjamin H. Natelson, MD Director, Pain & Fatigue Study Center, Beth Israel
Medical Center Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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