Dr Leighton Barnden and colleagues at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia have just published the first results from their ME Research UK-funded study using MRI to explore the brains of people with ME/CFS.
Their new paper, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, reports that ME/CFS and long COVID patients had larger than normal volumes of several areas of the brainstem, and these changes correlated with clinical measures of pain and breathing difficulty.
