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Fatigue Science for Human Health

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Editors:
  1. Yasuyoshi Watanabe

    1. Molecular Imaging Research Program, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
      Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

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  2. Birgitta Evengård

    1. Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska, University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
      Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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  3. Benjamin H. Natelson

    1. New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, USA

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  4. Leonard A. Jason

    1. Center for Community Research, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

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  5. Hirohiko Kuratsune

    1. Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health Science for Welfare, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Dimensions and Assessment of Fatigue

    • Leonard A. Jason, Michelle Choi
    Pages 1-16

  3. Fatigue: Epidemiology and Social/Industrial Aspects

    • Birgitta Evengård
    Pages 17-31

  4. Development of a Method of Evaluation of Fatigue and Its Economic Impacts

    • Osami Kajimoto
    Pages 33-46

  5. Utility of an Advanced Trail Making Test as a Neuropsychological Tool for an Objective Evaluation of Work Efficiency During Mental Fatigue

    • Kei Mizuno, Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Pages 47-54

  6. The Brief Fatigue Syndrome Scale: Validation and Utilization in Fatigue Recovery Studies

    • Bengt B. Arnetz, Lena Frenzel, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Jan Lisspers
    Pages 55-66

  7. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    • Hirohiko Kuratsune, Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Pages 67-88

  8. Development and Validation of a New Fatigue Scale for Fatigued Subjects With and Without Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    • Sanae Fukuda, Shoko Takashima, Masao Iwase, Kouzi Yamaguti, Hirohiko Kuratsune, Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Pages 89-102

  9. Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Japan

    • Masao Iwase, Shoji Okajima, Rei Takahashi, Tamiko Mogami, Nahoko Kusaka, Hirohiko Kuratsune et al.
    Pages 103-117

  10. Some Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Brain Dysfunction

    • Benjamin H. Natelson
    Pages 119-124

  11. Neurobiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    • Abhijit Chaudhuri, John W. Gow, Peter O. Behan
    Pages 125-136

  12. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Herpesvirus Infection

    • Kazuhiro Kondo
    Pages 137-152

  13. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Childhood and Adolescence

    • Teruhisa Miike, David S. Bell
    Pages 153-171

  14. Physical or Mental Fatigue and Immunodepression

    • Linda M. Castell
    Pages 173-185

  15. Exercise Fatigue

    • Kazuo Inoue, Tohru Fushiki
    Pages 187-201

  16. Mechanism of Fatigue Studied in a Newly Developed Animal Model of Combined (Mental and Physical) Fatigue

    • Masaaki Tanaka, Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Pages 203-212

  17. Lactate Is Not a Cause of Fatigue

    • Masaaki Tanaka, Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Pages 213-218

  18. Brain Mechanisms of Poly I:C-Induced Fatigue in Rats

    • Toshihiko Katafuchi
    Pages 219-230

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 231-236
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Keywords

About this book

Fatigue is quite a familiar sensation, one that everyone is likely to have experienced. Its molecular and neural mechanisms have not yet been elucidated, however, probably because of the complicated nature of its causes. To provide a broad forum for discussion, the International Conference on Fatigue Science was organized, the first being held in 2002 in Sandhamn, Sweden, and the second in 2005 in Karuizawa, Japan. Subsequently it was decided that the papers presented at the two conferences should be collected and incorporated in this pioneering work, Fatigue Science for Human Health. The book summarizes fatigue researchers' achievements, explains the status of the research on fatigue, and presents perspectives on remedies for chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. The result is an authoritative guide to recent progress in the molecular and neural mechanisms of fatigue and in the development of the ways to prevent and overcome fatigue and chronic fatigue. This book provides a valuable resource not only for physicians but for all who work in public health.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Molecular Imaging Research Program, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan

    Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

    Yasuyoshi Watanabe

  • Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska, University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

    Birgitta Evengård

  • Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Birgitta Evengård

  • New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, USA

    Benjamin H. Natelson

  • Center for Community Research, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

    Leonard A. Jason

  • Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health Science for Welfare, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan

    Hirohiko Kuratsune

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fatigue Science for Human Health

  • Editors: Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Birgitta Evengård, Benjamin H. Natelson, Leonard A. Jason, Hirohiko Kuratsune

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-73464-2

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-73463-5Published: 18 December 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-99830-3Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-73464-2Published: 06 April 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 236

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Sports Medicine

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