Dunedin researchers have smashed the myth that chronic fatigue syndrome is only in the head.
For decades, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and once as "Tapanui Flu", were labelled as depressed or told their symptoms were all in their heads.
However, two four-year studies by the University of Otago’s Emeritus Professor Warren Tate,…