Ramblemuse Touch Points

A recent press release by the Karolinska Institutet, a medical university in Sweden, notes a study revealing that stress in early life can be a major factor in later development of chronic fatigue syndrome. The study looked at 20,000 Swedish twins surveyed in 1973 and again in 1998. The scientists also noted a correlation between emotional instability and chronic fatigue. The research by Kenji Kato et al. was published in the November 2006 Issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Another article by Christine Heim et al. on early adverse experiences and chronic fatigue is in the same issue of AGP.