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Connectivity differences between Gulf War Illness (GWI) phenotypes during a test of attention.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2019
Clarke Tomas, Jamieson Jessie D, Malone Patrick, Rayhan Rakib U, Washington Stuart, VanMeter John W, Baraniuk James N
Abstract excerpt
One quarter of veterans returning from the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War have developed Gulf War Illness (GWI) with chronic pain, fatigue, cognitive and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Exertion leads to characteristic, delayed onset exacerbations that are not relieved by sleep. We have modeled exertional exhaustion by comparing magnetic resonance images from before and after submaximal exercise. One third of the 27...
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