Jay Goldstein

Dr. Jay A. Goldstein was a prominent ME/CFS clinician and researcher located in southern California, USA. Trained as a psychiatrist, he taught at the University of California, Irvine. He was director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Institutes of Anaheim Hills and Beverly Hills. He organized a symposium in Los Angeles on CFIDS and fibromyalgia. When Stephen Straus, in 1989, published that CFS was likely a psychiatric illness, Jay Goldstein vehemently criticized Straus's work, saying "To be quite frank, I could not believe a research paper could be this bad and be published."

Books

• 1992, The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome edited by Byron Hyde, Jay Goldstein, and Paul Levine
• 1993, Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: The Limbic Hypothesis
• 1996, Betrayal by the Brain: The Neurologic Basis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome, and Related Neural Network Disorders
• 2004, Tuning the Brain: Principles and Practice of Neurosomatic Medicine

Notable studies

• 1995, The Assessment of Vascular Abnormalities in Late Life Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Brain SPECT: Comparison with Late Life Major Depressive Disorder(Abstract)
• 2000, The Pathophysiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Neurosomatic Disorders

See also

• Betrayal by the Brain
• The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Learn more

• Jay A. Goldstein, M.D.’S Unique Treatment Protocol For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia (from ProHealth)
• Dr. Jay Goldstein: A-Z Treatments (from CFSTreatmentGuide)
• Jay Goldstein's Treatment Protocol for Physicians (from National CFIDS Foundation)

chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) - A fatigue-based illness. The term CFS was invented invented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as an replacement for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Some view CFS as a neurological disease, others use the term for any unexplained long-term fatigue. Sometimes used as a the term as a synonym of myalgic encephalomyelitis, despite the different diagnostic criteria.

Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) - Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome is another term for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but one which emphasizes the immunological aspects of the disease. Popular in the 1990's, this term has apparently fallen into disuse.