Myalgic encephalomyelitis Adine Elisabeth Nåvik Torhild Kaald

 A complex neurologic disorder – unknown cause  Not yet classified as a biological disease What is it?

 Most typical – post-exertional malaise  Influenza-like symptomes  Orthostatic intolerance  Neurological/cognitive manifestations  Muscle and/or joint pain  Sleep dysfunction  70% gets the disorder after an infection Symptoms

 Is very difficult to diagnose  Depression  Canada-criteria  4 degrees of severity: -Mild -Moderate -Severe -Very severe Diagnosis

 Difficult to give exact numbers because of different diagnose criteria  All nationalities  All ages, but more frequently from age  Bot genders, but predominantly females  About people in Norway, but probably much higher number Statistics

 Treatment of symptomes  Lot of disagreement  Lightning process  Different treatment works on different patients Treatment

 New study from Standford medical in California (2014)  Diffusion-tensor imaging of the brain  Abnormality in the brain in the right arcuate fasciculus (may be used for diagnosis)  Total amount of white matter in the right hemisphere is less than in healthy people  Another study in Bergen, Norway ( )  Rituximab – cancer medication, shows good results in some cases Latest research

 Wrongly diagnosed  Laziness  Human nature Peoples perceptions

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