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For further information about diagnosis, see the 2003 Canadian Definition, Pediatric Case Definition, as well as the Differential Diagnoses articles.

For more information about ME/CFS symptoms and their frequency, see the list compiled by Paul Cheney MD (the Cheney Clinic, specializing in ME/CFS), Anthony Komaroff MD (the Harvard Medical School), Charles Lapp MD (Hunter-Hopkins Center, specializing in ME/CFS)) and Daniel Peterson MD (Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease), by clicking on the Symptoms Checklist.

For comments on the confusion concerning the role of psychological conditions in ME/CFS, see the article by psychiatrist Alan Gurwitt MD, "On the Morbid Fascination with Psychiatric Morbidity" and a summary of an article by Anthony Komaroff MD in The American Journal of Medicine, "Differences between CFS and Major Depression."

Other articles in the Differential Diagnoses section address differentiating between ME/CFS and various specific psychological conditions, such as depression.