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 Radiology researchers have discovered that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have diminished white matter and white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere. Three key findings The analysis yielded three noteworthy results, the researchers said. First, an MRI showed that overall white-matter content of CFS patients’ brains, compared with that of healthy subjects’ brains, was reduced. The term “white matter” largely denotes the long, cablelike nerve tracts carrying signals among broadly dispersed concentrations of “gray matter.” The latter areas specialize in processing information, and the former in conveying the information from one part of the brain to another. That finding wasn’t entirely unexpected, Zeineh said. CFS is thought to involve chronic inflammation, quite possibly as a protracted immunological response to an as-yet unspecified viral infection. Inflammation, meanwhile, is known to take a particular toll on white matter. B...

Congenital herpes tied to lower developmental test scores in infants Infants with congenital human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) infections are more likely to score lower on a 12-month mental development test, according to a new URMC study published in the journal Pediatrics . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-congenital-herpes-tied-developmental-scores.html Early Developmental Outcomes of Children With Congenital HHV-6 Infection CONCLUSIONS: Congenital HHV-6 infection may have a detrimental effect on neurodevelopment at 12 months of age and requires further study given that congenital infection with HHV-6 is present in ∼1 in every 101 births.  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/10/29/peds.2014-0886.abstract HHV-6 and Autism In most cases, “autism” like behaviors are caused by the break down of the child’s immune system; allowing viruses, candida, fungi and parasites to set up shop in our beautiful children’s body a...

Survey for the Presence and Distribution of Human Herpesvirus 8 in Healthy Brain "The interpretation of detection of a lymphotropic virus, like HHV-8, in any tissue where the microvasculature cannot be avoided may be difficult. In this study, it is unlikely that the positive PCR results were due to HHV-8 carrying lymphocytes within the microvasculature of brain tissues, since all control tissues were negative by the HHV-8 PCR. Our results show that HHV-8 DNA can be detected in brain tissues of a majority (63.3%) of the adult population in Hong Kong. In most individuals, HHV-8 can be found in more than one part of the brain, but there seems to be no predilection for any particular position within the brain. Whether the observed trend of increase in positivity with age is related to an increase in seroprevalence remains to be established. Although data on seroprevalence of HHV-8 in Hong Kong are not yet available, the results of this study suggest that HHV-8 is highly prev...