EXTREMELY URGENT – Re Prof Basant Puri Study – PERMISSION TO

> EXTREMELY URGENT – Re Prof Basant Puri Study – PERMISSION TO
REPOST.
>
> Calling all physically fit carers, friends and relatives of ME
> patients. Your help is very urgently needed and may be of great
> assistance to the UK ME community.
>
> Professor Basant Puri urgently needs 10 PHYSICALLY FIT individuals
> between the ages of 18 to 55 to contact him concerning
participation
> in his current ME/CFS biomedical brain studies on ME/CFS patients.
> These individuals will act as healthy `control-subjects' in his
study
> and must not have ME/CFS or have had any major illness. They will
> attend Hammersmith Hospital on ONE of two dates in London (Sunday
3
> August OR Sunday 10 August 2008) for MRI brain-imaging, cognitive
> function tests and an EEG. Candidates must not have any metal
> implants in their body in order to go through the MRI scanner:
most
> dental work is safe in this respect but needs to be mentioned to
> Professor Puri to be verified. Participants who have worked with
> grinding metals/sparks must also mention this. There is also space
> for one more properly diagnosed ME patient to participate in the
> study on one of these dates.
>
> Participants will need to fund their own travel costs but there is
> ample parking available in the Hammersmith Hospital car park.
Please
> do NOT contact me about this matter but please do contact
Professor
> Puri direct as soon as you can for full details if you can
> help/participate. His email address is:
>
> basant.puri@ ...
>
> It is very important for the ME community that this work is
completed
> as soon as possible and that these study slots are filled. PLEASE
> HELP. Treat yourself to an interesting trip to London in aid of a
> good cause!
>
> Many thanks indeed.
>
> Kev Short.
> Anglia ME Action.
>
> PERMISSION TO REPOST.