Review Article
Gray Matter Volumes in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Table 1
The gray matter volumes change in different researches.
| Year | Title |
Authors | Results | Gray matter | Regions | White matter | Regions |
| 2004 | Mechanisms underlying fatigue, a voxel-based morphometric study of chronic fatigue syndrome |
Okada et al. [34] | Reduction | Bilateral prefrontal | No significance | |
| 2005 | Gray matter volume reduction in the chronic fatigue syndrome |
de Lange et al. [36] | Reduction | Globe, no special regions | No significance | |
| 2008 | Increase in prefrontal cortical volume following cognitive behavioural therapy in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome |
de Lange et al. [37] | Increased | Lateral prefrontal | No significance | |
| 2011 | A brain MRI study of chronic fatigue syndrome evidence of brainstem dysfunction and altered homeostasis |
Barnden et al. [43] | No significance | | No significance | |
| 2012 | Regional grey and white matter volumetric changes in myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome), a voxel-based morphometry 3-T MRI study |
Puri et al. [35] | Reduction | Occipital lobes, the right angular gyrus and the posterior division of the left parahippocampal gyrus | Reduction | Left occipital lobe |
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