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Fibromyalgia and cognitive disorders: What you need to know! Skip to content. The ultimate thirst-quenching experience, professor of Epidemiology and director of Chronic fatigue and cognitive impairment impaiment at the Chroonic for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman Clgnitive. Ian LipkinMD, John Chronic fatigue and cognitive impairment Professor cognihive Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity. There is precedent for use of human monoclonal antibodies that regulate the immune response in a wide range of disorders from rheumatoid arthritis to multiple sclerosis. However, the researchers note, additional work will be needed to assess the safety and efficacy of this approach. The study was supported by a grant from the Chronic Fatigue Initiative of the Hutchins Family Foundation and the Edward P.Chronic fatigue and cognitive impairment -
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Subjects progress through the test by satisfying a set of criteria of learning at each stage nine stages in total.
If at any stage the subject fails to reach this criterion after 50 trials, the test ends. The total number of stages achieved, the total number of errors adjusted to the number of completed stages , the errors made up to the extra dimensional shift pre-ED errors , as well as the errors at extra dimensional shift EDS errors served as performance indices.
In addition, cognitive fatigability in the RVIP test was assessed for each subject's comparing the performance response latencies during the first period of the test trials 1—9, min 2 to the performance during the second trials 10—18, min 3 and third periods of the test trials 19—27, min 4.
The order in which tests were presented was counterbalanced for each patient. Of note, CANTAB tests are culture- and language-free, and there are no gender-related differences in performance Robbins and Sahakian, Mental fatigue scores on the MFI were compared between CFS patients and nonfatigued subjects using a two-sample t -test.
Subsequent analyses of cognitive performance were performed contrasting CFS patients with significant mental fatigue vs CFS patients with low mental fatigue and nonfatigued subjects. Mental fatigue was considered to be significant if the score of mental fatigue was 2 standard deviations above the mean mental fatigue score in nonfatigued subjects.
Analysis of variance ANOVA was used to compare performance across the three groups in the selected CANTAB tests. Post-hoc comparisons were performed when appropriate using both conservative Tukey and powerful t -test tests of significance. When significance was attained using both tests, only the Tukey test was reported.
Subjects with CFS exhibited significantly greater MFI mental fatigue scores mean: The horizontal black lines represent the mean score in each group. As depicted in Table 1 , there was no difference between groups in terms of psychomotor coordination and motor speed, as indicated by performance on the RTI test.
Reasoning and planning abilities as assessed by the SOC test were comparable across groups Table 2. Working memory performance of CFS patients with low mental fatigue was not statistically different from performance in nonfatigued subjects.
The lower the strategy score the more efficient was the subject. The ability to shift attentional set as assessed by the IED test was comparable across the three groups Table 4. A two-way repeated-measure ANOVA with group as a between-subject factor and RVIP trial period trials 1—9 vs trials 10—18 vs trials 19—27 was performed to compare changes in response latencies as a measure of cognitive fatigability during the course of the RVIP test in the three groups.
Examination of the simple main effects and post-hoc analyses revealed that changes in response latencies over the course of the RVIP test were apparent only in CFS patients with significant mental fatigue.
Similar to nonfatigued subjects, CFS patients with no significant complaints of mental fatigue did not show any significant impairment in the RVIP task. White bar: first period of the test trials 1—9, ie, min 2 ; striped bar: second period of the test trials 10—18, ie, min 3 ; solid black bar: third period of the test trials 19—27, ie, min 4.
The present findings indicate that mental fatigue is an important correlate of cognitive impairment in CFS patients. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a clear association is demonstrated between subjective complaints of mental fatigue and objective measurements of cognitive function in a population-based sample of patients with CFS.
In addition, these data provide important information regarding the specificity of cognitive dysfunction in patients with CFS. Finally, these findings provide interesting clues regarding the neural pathways that may underlie cognitive alterations in CFS patients.
As noted previously, cognitive dysfunction has been found in some, but not all, neuropsychological studies in CFS patients. For instance, whereas several investigations have shown evidence of impaired memory, attention, and information-processing speed in patients with CFS Deluca et al, , ; Dobbs et al, ; Joyce et al, , other reports have failed to show any significant cognitive alterations in these patients Michiels and Cluydts, This discrepancy between results may be due to the variability of methods of assessment of cognitive function, but also may be due to the relative presence of mental fatigue or other relevant symptoms in the patient populations examined.
In support of the latter hypothesis, ratings of subjective mental fatigue as assessed by the MFI were found to significantly relate to cognitive performance, especially in tests of information-processing speed, verbal fluency, and retention, in patients with myasthenia gravis Paul et al, This finding is in accordance with previous reports indicating alterations in working memory, including the SWM task of the CANTAB, in patients with CFS Joyce et al, ; Marshall et al, This finding is supported by previous data indicating reduced information-processing speed in CFS patients Marshall et al, , Attentional shift abilities, as well as planning and problem-solving performance, were not impaired in patients with CFS with significant complaints of mental fatigue compared to CFS patients with low mental fatigue and nonfatigued subjects.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that, because of the limited sample size, especially for the group of CFS patients with significant mental fatigue, it may also be that the absence of impairment in these tests of executive function in CFS patients with mental fatigue is related to reduced statistical power.
Interestingly, patients with CFS and low mental fatigue exhibited performance on all tasks including the SWM and the RVIP tasks found to be impaired in CFS patients with significant mental fatigue similar to nonfatigued subjects. In addition to demonstrating a strong concordance between subjective complaints of mental fatigue and objective measurement of cognitive function in CFS patients, these findings indicate that mental fatigue represents an essential determinant of cognitive dysfunction associated with CFS and a relevant variable to be considered when assessing cognitive performance in patients with this disorder.
Of note, cognitive impairment in CFS patients with mental fatigue was not attributable to mood disorders or psychotropic medication use in these patients. The tasks that were found to be impaired in CFS patients with mental fatigue ie, SWM and RVIP tasks have been shown to involve specific fronto-parieto-thalamo-striatal areas.
Taken together, these findings suggest that changes in neural circuits involving the frontal and parietal cortex as well as the thalamus and basal ganglia may constitute a primary pathway in the pathophysiology of CFS-related mental fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
Nevertheless, it remains also possible that CFS patients recruit different or additional brain areas than those detected in normal controls to perform the same tasks. This hypothesis is supported by recent data indicating that CFS patients engaged in a complex auditory information-processing task utilize more extensive regions of the network associated with verbal WM system than nonfatigued subjects Lange et al, Finally, given the heterogeneity and diversity of symptoms in CFS, it is also highly probable that not one, but several, pathophysiological mechanisms are involved in the syndrome of chronic fatigue.
Consistent with this notion, data obtained in patients with Parkinson disease afflicted with fatigue indicate that mental fatigue and physical fatigue as assessed by the MFI scale are independent symptoms, suggesting that these two forms of fatigue involve separate etiologies and pathophysiological pathways Lou et al, In support of this hypothesis, the antidepressant paroxetine, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, was found to prevent mental fatigue and cognitive dysfunction, but not physical fatigue, in patients with medical illness affected with fatigue and treated with the cytokine, interferon-alpha Capuron et al, In conclusion, our findings show a clear relationship between perceived mental fatigue and objective measures of working memory and cognitive fatigability in CFS patients, and indicate that complaints of mental fatigue constitute an important factor to be considered in the detection and assessment of cognitive dysfunction in patients with CFS.
It appears, therefore, quite possible that the lack of consideration or the underestimation of complaints of mental fatigue in CFS patients may have contributed to the heterogeneity of results obtained from the assessment of neuropsychological performance in patients with fatiguing illnesses.
This study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the funding agency. Afari N, Buchwald D Chronic fatigue syndrome: a review.
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