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Apr 13, 2007 19:15

Accelerated Brain Gray Matter Loss in Fibromyalgia Patients:
Premature Aging of the Brain? ( article )

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fuck that moonlitcirce April 14 2007, 04:24:08 UTC

ooh- that better fucking not be true because all i have is my fucking brain.

I say FUCK that study.
and who on earth were the subjects anyway?
i am sure there were confounding variables, etc.

Re: fuck that teahleilah April 14 2007, 07:47:18 UTC

yeah, but there's a lot more brain than the part that's involved in thinking.

also, i know that some people with fibro don't have brain fog, but the parts of the brain affected could be slightly different.

i'm not sure. but i do know that it does affect my thinking, but not all the time.

this is also just a summary of the full study report, i think.

Re: fuck that moonlitcirce April 14 2007, 23:27:33 UTC

i think the grey matter is more involved with cortical thinking than the white matter.
i think that's what is commonly believed, i.e. "use your grey matter!"
and i think that is true, from what i learned in neuro last year.

Re: fuck that teahleilah April 15 2007, 04:53:10 UTC

okay, you have much more background/knowledge of this than i, so i can see what you mean. i didn't know that there was grey matter and white matter, etc.

i didn't mean for this to freak you out. i'm sorry.

also, it was done with only 10 fibro women and 10 controls, which is a very small amount of people. and you know as well as i that the study could be corrupted in numerous ways.

what i think would be interesting to find out is whether the fibro women they "used" had any reported/unreported cognitive deficit symptoms, i.e. "fibro fog."