Open AccessThe fatigue conundrum
Author(s) -
Annapoorna Kuppuswamy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
brain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.142
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1460-2156
pISSN - 0006-8950
DOI - 10.1093/brain/awx153
Subject(s) - pathological , psychology , disease , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , physical medicine and rehabilitation , cognitive psychology , audiology , pathology
Fatigue is a major affective symptom in neurological disease, but its basis is poorly understood. Kuppuswamy describes the defining features of fatigue and its relationship to perceived effort, before proposing that pathological fatigue is a consequence of impaired sensory attenuation.
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