Chronic pain and fatigue syndromes that plague individuals are difficult to diagnose and treat. These conditions, which go by names such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, may affect more than 200,000 individuals in Alabama.

Research by a new University of Alabama at Birmingham associate professor reveals the best medicine to end chronic pain and fatigue conditions may be stopping inflammation in the brain.

Jarred Younger, Ph.D., who came to UAB from Stanford University’s School of Medicine, has a primary appointment in the Department of Psychology and secondary appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. His focus is diagnosing and treating neuroinflammatory disorders. Younger’s work at Stanford already yielded new treatments for pain and fatigue, and he is continuing that work at UAB.