"Our research provides initial evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome and its family of illnesses may be legitimate, neurological diseases and that at least part of the pathology involves the central nervous system." -- James Baraniuk, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and first author on the study. As cited in: Research provides more evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome is a legitimate medical condition: Syndrome linked to neurological abnormalities, Public release, Georgetown University Medical Center , 1-Dec-2005

"The new evidence lies in patients' spinal fluid. Tests show 16 proteins in the spinal fluid of people with chronic fatigue syndrome but not in healthy people, according to a study in BMC Neurology." -- Miranda Hitti, Web MD, in: Evidence for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Proteins in Spinal Fluid May Be Markers of Syndrome, Early Tests Show

"(...) a study like this shows that these people have something in their cerebral spinal fluid that separates them from the normal population," -- James Baraniuk, MD, as cited by Miranda Hitti, Web MD, in: Evidence for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Proteins in Spinal Fluid May Be Markers of Syndrome, Early Tests Show