Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0054550

Zusammenfassung

The main objective is the elucidation of the pathophysiology of stress-related severe chronic fatigue using methods and paradigms from various disciplines, such as psychology, medicine, and biology. The overall research question is how stress impacts the body and how this leads to fatigue. Medically unexplained chronic severe fatigue is very prevalent in our society. It incurs suffering at an individual level and accounts for high health-care related costs on a societal level. Despite virtually thousands of studies, no pathophysiological mechanism has been found which might explain thi...