Professor Peter Behan on BBC ALBA. “Electron microscopy shows abnormal mitochondria in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and we have known this since the 1980s.
Research money should be spent on biomedical Myalgic Encephalomyelitis research and not on psycho nonsense,” says Dr. Behan, a retired Harvard trained neurologist and psychiatrist who became a world expert on the physiological nature of ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome) in his practice at Southern General Hospital in Glasgow.
See also: The main characteristic of ME is an abnormally delayed muscle recovery after doing trivial things, if you don't have that, you don't have ME
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I think Behan refers to the observation of "red ragged" mitochondria, which was first published in 1988 if I recall correctly. A slightly later paper is:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n107182u2k21l077/
Bye, Alex
Can't find this paper Dr S - the final characters are obscured by the 'Leave your Comment' area of the page, unfortunately.
Cheers - lovely to see you posting again after a few days' break; hope you've not been poorly...
It was a real joy to see Prof Behan describe his work on ME, and I'm proud to have appeared in the same documentary (though I was mainly in part one). I had not seen him since eighties. As you know, I was diagnosed by Prof Behan in 1984 after many blood tests and muscle biopsy and EMG.
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