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The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study

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This article is published in Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chronic fatigue syndrome.

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Fatigue in neurological disorders

TL;DR: A state of pre-existing relative hypocortisolaemia might sensitise the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to development of persistent central fatigue after stress.
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Gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

TL;DR: This results suggest that patients with CFS have reproducible alterations in gene regulation, and upregulation of neuropathy target esterase and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G1 may suggest links with organophosphate exposure and virus infection, respectively.
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Functional symptoms in neurology: management

TL;DR: This article offers an approach to management of functional symptoms based on its own experience and on the evidence from other specialities (because theevidence from neurology is so slim).
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Fatigue, burnout, and chronic fatigue syndrome among employees on sick leave: do attributions make the difference?

TL;DR: Fatigued employees shared many important characteristics with CFS patients, regardless of burnout status, and many fatigued employees met CFS criteria and/or burnout criteria, which raises questions about the role of causal attributions.
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Post-Lyme Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Neuropsychiatric Similarities and Differences

TL;DR: Despite symptom overlap, patients with PLS show greater cognitive deficits than patients with CFS compared with healthy controls, particularly apparent among patientswith PLS who lack premorbid psychiatric illness.
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National Institute of Mental Health diagnostic interview schedule: Its history, characteristics, and validity.

TL;DR: In this article, a new interview schedule allows lay interviewers or clinicians to make psychiatric diagnoses according to DSM-III criteria, Feighner criteria, and Research Diagnostic Criteria.
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The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID). I: History, rationale, and description.

TL;DR: The history, rationale, and development of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) is described, which is a semistructured interview for making the major Axis I DSM- III-R diagnoses.
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Development of a fatigue scale

TL;DR: A self-rating scale was developed to measure the severity of fatigue and was found to be both reliable and valid, and supported the notion of a two-factor solution (physical and mental fatigue).
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Working Case Definition

TL;DR: A new name is proposed for the chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome--the chronic fatigue syndrome--that more accurately describes this symptom complex as a syndrome of unknown cause characterized primarily by chronic fatigue.
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A report--chronic fatigue syndrome: guidelines for research.

TL;DR: Authors Dr M C Sharpe MRCPsych Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Dr L C Archard PhD Senior Lecturer , Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London
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