ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/08/20261) 🇺🇸 A new NIH study argues that the fatigue experienced by ME/CFS patients likely has a central (in the brain) rather than a peripheral (in muscle) origin. They put patients in an MRI scanner and recorded electromyography during grip strength exercises. A brief breakdown. 1288
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 06/08/20262) All participants had to squeeze a grip device at 50% of their maximal force: 30 seconds of squeezing, 30 seconds of rest, repeated multiple times to generate fatigue. Fatigue was defined as no longer being able to generate the target force. 171