Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- professor at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School
- Quoted on
- Long Covid
- Press citations held
- 5
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 21 Sept 2026
“We now think the answer may lie in shared regulatory networks embedded within the body's immune and metabolic systems. A COVID-19 infection may trigger prolonged immune activation. Traumatic stress may disrupt stress-hormone pathways and inflammatory responses. But both disturbances appear capable of converging on common biological circuits controlling energy production, immune regulation and cellular resilience.”
What Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy has said
“But one thing that links them all is that patients frequently report remarkably similar symptoms – overwhelming fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, disturbed sleep, autonomic dysfunction and a dramatic reduction in everyday functioning. We wanted to find out why this is.”
clinician-scientist at UEA · Long Covid · 29 Sept 2026 · A Shared Biology Underlies 5 Major Fatigue-Causing Illnesses, Scientists Suggest ↗
“Until now, illnesses including long Covid, PTSD, ME/CFS, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis were viewed as seemingly unrelated and triggered by completely different events.”
Professor at UEA's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · 29 Sept 2026 · Common Genomic Networks Found Across Long COVID, ME/CFS, and PTSD ↗
“What we discovered is something approaching a biological unifying theory of fatigue”
researcher at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School · Long Covid · 29 Sept 2026 · Five very different illnesses share a surprising biological connection ↗
“Until now, illnesses including long Covid, PTSD, ME/CFS, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis were viewed as seemingly unrelated and triggered by completely different events... But one thing that links them all is that patients frequently report remarkably similar symptoms – overwhelming fatigue, brain fog, poor concentration, disturbed sleep, autonomic dysfunction and a dramatic reduction in everyday functioning.”
Lead researcher, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia · Long Covid · 21 Sept 2026 · Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Link ↗
Where Professor Dmitry Pshezhetskiy has been quoted
- Study links shared process to chronic exhaustion in 5 separate illnessesdtnext.in · 29 Sept 2026
- A Shared Biology Underlies 5 Major Fatigue-Causing Illnesses, Scientists Suggestsciencealert.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Common Genomic Networks Found Across Long COVID, ME/CFS, and PTSDtechnologynetworks.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Five very different illnesses share a surprising biological connectionearth.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Five Very Different Diseases May Share a Hidden Biological Linkscitechdaily.com · 21 Sept 2026
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