Symposia Paper

In 2000 and 2001, TheCFIDS Association of America hosted a series of three scientific symposia designed to strengthen the overall research effort. Sponsorship from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control helped attract dozens of top scientists from universities and medical centers across the country to delve into published studies on CFIDS and set research priorities for further investigation. The “scientific court” assembled for each meeting evaluated evidence of abnormalities in the autonomic nervous system, the immune system and neuroendocrine system. Each symposia ended with the presentation of a consensus statement on the research in each area, followed by a discussion of the most promising avenues for research in that field. All three papers have been published in NeuroImmunoModulation, with the neuroendocrine symposia paper appearing this February as the first article in Volume 11 of the journal.

For more information on Neuroendocrine Abnormalities in CFS visit the links below

http://www.cfids.org/advocacy/symposium-2.asp 
http://www.cfids.org/archives/2001rr/2001-rr2-article04.asp  http://www.cfids.org/archives/2001rr/2001-rr4-article01.asp