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Brain fog

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This is a highly subjective term that leads its own life on messaging boards for hypochondriacs. The article is entirely constructed of original research trying to sound pseudoscientific by employing neurological terminology. It could also be termed "I just don't feel right, doc". Delete, no merge opportunities. JFW | T@lk 22:15, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete: Lacks refs and is a colloquialism with no specific definition. The only useable reference in the article actually discusses chemo brain, a notable topic which has its own article. Note: saw this AfD in a posting at WT:MED, in the interest of full disclosure. MastCell ^Talk 22:42, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete or possibly merge to one line in organic brain syndrome or mental confusion, which should be merged with each other anyway. Non notable and obfuscates rather than clarifies knowledge. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Simply delete. Appears to be a coatrack on which to hang an external link to a website of the same name. Nothing to do with either chemo brain or organic brain syndrome. -- The Anome (talk) 23:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep A common term for a valid symptom for people with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other similar disorders. As someone highly familiar with research around fibromyalgia research, I would request that one consider this valid and not simply throw it out as a hypochondriasis, a dismissal that happens far too often with people who suffer from that all-too-real disease. Eauhomme (talk) 07:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Let's stick to medical terms that appear in medical dictionaries, rather than neologisms. Colin°^Talk 09:30, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Brain fog seems to be a genuine term used in some reliable sources to describe either Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment or alternatively a form of mental confusion when associated with among ather things intoxication, ageing, and the medical conditions listed in the article. Since the first use already has an article I'd merge any relevant information intothe Mental confusion article which can be verified by reliable sources (which might include: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). Guest9999 (talk) 11:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep/merge There are many scholarly sources which mention this including a book on the subject which I have cited in the lede. No doubt there are other articles on similar and related topics but this material should be merged rather than deleted. Colonel Warden (talk) 15:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• merge concept that won't have been mentioned in the mainstream, WP:RS press independently of M.E., fibro and such like- not independently notable. Sticky Parkin 18:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep Unless someone has a really conclusive source stating that this topic falls under one specific medical term/article, its merger would be a sort of original research. --Firefly322 (talk) 21:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

  Impaired concentration is a pretty common feature of many psychiatric and medical illnesses, from depression to influenza. I can't see how reifying it in this particular case is helpful or informative, hence merging option. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:21, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect to Joe Versus the Volcano. A "brain cloud" is a fictional disease invented within that film by an unscrupulous doctor to trick Joe into thinking he's dying. That seems more notable than the made-up syndrome described here. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)