Fatigue Science for Human Health

From the reviews: "This book begins a discussion about whether the symptom of fatigue should be raised to a specialty in its own right. The authors offer numerous considerations and research to support their contention. ... It is directed at the scientific community to raise interest in fatigue research, with a focus on the chronic fatigue syndrome. ... This book separates fatigue out of the usual specialty practices of neurology and rheumatology and suggests fatigue could be a unique specialty." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Review Service, May, 2008)

• Dimensions and Assessment of Fatigue.- Fatigue: Epidemiology and Social/Industrial Aspects.- Development of a Method of Evaluation of Fatigue and Its Economic Impacts.- Utility of an Advanced Trail Making Test as a Neuropsychological Tool for an Objective Evaluation of Work Efficiency During Mental Fatigue.- The Brief Fatigue Syndrome Scale: Validation and Utilization in Fatigue Recovery Studies.- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- Development and Validation of a New Fatigue Scale for Fatigued Subjects With and Without Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Japan.- Some Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Brain Dysfunction.- Neurobiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Herpesvirus Infection.- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Childhood and Adolescence.- Physical or Mental Fatigue and Immunodepression.- Exercise Fatigue.- Mechanism of Fatigue Studied in a Newly Developed Animal Model of Combined (Mental and Physical) Fatigue.- Lactate Is Not a Cause of Fatigue.- Brain Mechanisms of Poly I:C-Induced Fatigue in Rats.