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Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol 56, Issue 5 383-388, Copyright © 1994 by American Psychosomatic Society

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Cognitive functioning in chronic fatigue syndrome and depression: a preliminary comparison

KB Schmaling, JD DiClementi, CM Cullum and JF Jones
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98105.

This study used a brief battery of neuropsychological measures to examine the performance of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (N = 16) and patients in a major depressive episode (N = 23). The overall neuropsychological performance of the CFS group was not significantly different from depressed patients, and both groups scored within normal limits on most measures. Variability of neuropsychologic performance was in general unrelated to level of depressive symptoms. The results are discussed in terms of the validity of the cognitive criterion for the CFS diagnosis. Subjective complaints of cognitive dysfunction by CFS patients in light of the lack of objective evidence for the same are considered in terms of a somatic vigilance hypothesis.


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