Brain Changes Accompany Physical Symptoms: from digestive issues to fatigue

Faulty connections in the brain, newly visible with advances in neuroimaging, can help explain often debilitating symptoms that are difficult to diagnose—like dizziness and tremor, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia—and dismissed by others, including doctors. Alterations in the brain’s software affect ‘how brain networks work, rather than changes in the structure of the…