Beyond the symptom: the biology of fatigue

A workshop titled Beyond the Symptom: The Biology of Fatigue was held virtually September 27-28, 2021. It was jointly organized by the Sleep Research Society and the Neurobiology of Fatigue Working Group of the NIH Blueprint Neuroscience Research Program. For access to the presentations and video recordings, see: https://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/about/event/beyond-symptom-biol-ogy-fatigue. The goals of this workshop were to bring together clinicians and scientists who use a variety of research approaches to understand fatigue in multiple conditions and to identify key gaps in our understanding of the biology of fatigue. This workshop sum-mary distills key issues discussed in this workshop and provides a list of promising directions for future research on this topic. We do not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of the state of our understanding of fatigue, nor to provide a comprehensive reprise of the many excellent presentations. Rather, our goal is to highlight key advances and to focus on questions and future approaches to answering them.

Automated summary

The workshop "Beyond the Symptom: The Biology of Fatigue" was a virtual event held on September 27-28, 2021. It aimed to bring together clinicians and scientists using different research approaches to understand fatigue in various conditions and identify gaps in our understanding of its biology. This workshop summary highlights key issues discussed and provides a list of promising future research directions, without aiming to comprehensively review the state of understanding or reprise all the presentations.