Articles by author - Michael Maes


"Functional" or "psychosomatic" symptoms, e.g. a flu-like malaise, aches and pain and fatigue, are major features of major and in particular of melancholic depression.

BACKGROUND: Major depression is characterized by multifarious symptoms and symptoms clusters, such as the melancholic and anxiety symptom .....

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Chronic fatigue syndrome: la bête noire of the Belgian health care system.

: The World Health Organization acknowledges Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to be a medical illness. ME/CFS.....

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