title: [Neuroimaging and the case of chronic fatigue syndrome].
abstract: This article analyzes the use of neuroimaging in research into chronic fatigue syndrome. It reviews some works published in the 1990 s and investigates a specific aspect of these studies, namely the search for a cerebral abnormality, in the form of an altered activation pattern, which could provide a pattern for diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome as a disease reduced to some cerebral findings is analyzed, arguing in favor of a broader vision of this disease that includes psychosocial elements of the patient's life as opposed to entirely somatic explanations.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. fjortega2@gmail.com
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: Rafaela
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zorzanelli
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography