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Here are the most important articles that will allow you, your family, doctors and therapists to understand and treat PPS from Dr. Bruno's The Polio Paradox: Uncovering the Hidden History of Polio to Understand and Treat "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue.

• Bruno RL, Creange SJ, Frick NM. Parallels between post-polio fatigue and chronic fatigue
  
  
  syndrome: A Common pathophysiology? American Journal of Medicine, 1998, 105 (3A):
  
  
  66-73.

• Bruno RL, Creange SJ, Zimmerman JR, Frick NM. Elevated plasma prolactin and EEG slow
  
  
  wave power in post-polio fatigue: Implications for a dopamine deficiency underlying
  
  
  chronic fatigue syndromes. Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 1998; 4: 61-76.

• Bruno RL. Chronic fatigue, fainting and autonomic dysfunction: Further similarities
  
  
  between post-polio Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Journal of Chronic Fatigue
  
  
  Syndrome, 1997, 3: 107-117.

• Bruno RL,Frick NM, Creange SJ, Molzen T, Lewis T, Zimmerman JR. Polioencephalitis and
  
  
  the brain fatigue generator model of post-viral fatigue syndromes. Journal of Chronic
  
  
  Fatigue Syndrome, 1996; 2:5-27.

• Bruno RL,Zimmerman JR, Creange SJ, Lewis T, Molzen T, Frick NM. Bromocriptine in the
  
  
  treatment of post-polio fatigue: A pilot study with implications for the pathophysiology of
  
  
  fatigue. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1996; 75(5): 340-347.

• Bruno RL. Fainting and Fatigue: Causation or Coincidence? CFIDS Chronicle, 1996; 9(2):
  
  
  37-39.

• Bruno RL,Sapolsky R, Zimmerman JR, Frick NM. The pathophysiology of a central cause of
  
  
  post-polio fatigue. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1995; 753: 257-275.

• Bruno RL,Frick NM, Creange SJ, Lewis T, Molzen T. The cause and treatment of post-polio
  
  
  fatigue. Proceedings of the Ontario March of Dimes Conference on Post-Polio Sequelae.
  
  
  Toronto: Ontario March of Dimes, 1995.

• Bruno RL,Cohen J, Galski T, Frick NM. The neuroanatomy of post-polio fatigue. Archives of
  
  
  Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1994; 75: 498-504.

• Bruno RL,Galski T, DeLuca J. The neuropsychology of post-polio fatigue. Archives of
  
  
  Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1993; 74: 1061-1065.

• Bruno RL,Frick NM, Cohen, J. Polioencephalitis, stress and the etiology of Post-Polio
  
  
  Sequelae. Orthopedics, 1991; 14 (11): 1269-1276.