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Science for ME
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Welcome to Science For ME
About the forum. Members can access our rules, guidance on using the forum and a section where members can introduce themselves.
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Welcome: About the Forum, Our Values
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Latest: Welcome Science For ME, Apr 19, 2022
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ME/CFS and Long Covid news
A place to discuss news about ME/CFS and Long Covid.
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ME/CFS and Long Covid news
A place to discuss news about ME/CFS and Long Covid.
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Latest: Long Covid in the media and social media 2023 rvallee, Mar 26, 2023 at 3:59 PM
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ME/CFS and Long Covid research
A place to discuss specific research papers for ME/CFS and associated illnesses such as Long Covid. Each thread should be about a single research paper.
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ME/CFS and Long Covid research
A place to discuss specific research papers for ME/CFS and associated illnesses such as Long Covid. Each thread should be about a single research paper.
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Latest: Monitoring Carotid Blood Flow Using In-Ear Wearable Device During Tilt-Table Testing, 2023, Hemantkumar Tripathi MD et al Mij, Mar 26, 2023 at 3:59 PM
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Other news and research
A place to post and discuss other news and research relevant to people with ME/CFS
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Other news and research
A place for other health-related news and research. 'Conditions related to ME/CFS' includes IBS, POTS, fibromyalgia, post-treatment lyme disease, Gulf War Illness. 'Other Psychosomatic Medicine' covers approaches to diseases other than ME/CFS and Long Covid based on a psychosomatic paradigm - these often refer to illness labels such as Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) and functional disorders (e.g. Functional Neurological Disease).
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Latest: Emotion regulation and the salience network: a hypothetical integrative model of fibromyalgia, Margarida Pinto et al 2022 Andy, Mar 26, 2023 at 10:31 AM
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Resources
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Latest: UK: Action for ME: Media Guidelines for reporting on M.E. Trish, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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Advocacy and Fundraising
A place to discuss advocacy and fundraising related to the ME/CFS community
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Advocacy
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Latest: United Kingdom: Independent SAGE Ariel, Mar 26, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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Guidelines, reviews and disease coding
This section is for guidelines, reviews and coding with public consultation processes for ME/CFS and similar and related illnesses. Scientific papers about guidelines and reviews should be posted in the Research section.
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ME/CFS related guidelines, reviews, disease coding
'Guidelines, reviews and coding for ME/CFS and similar illnesses - development and discussion This section is for guidelines, reviews and coding with public processes for comment. Scientific papers about guidelines and reviews should be posted in the Research subforums.'
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Latest: UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion Tom Kindlon, Mar 25, 2023 at 11:56 PM
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Research quality and methodology discussions
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Causes, Epidemiology, Criteria, Naming discussions
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Symptoms and signs discussions
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Treatment discussions
A place to discuss treatments for ME/CFS and related conditions, excluding psychosomatic treatments
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Psychosomatic theories and treatments discussions
A place to discuss theories and treatments based on the assumption that ME/CFS and other illnesses are psychosomatic, caused by false illness beliefs and deconditioning. Topics include PACE trial, CBT, GET, MUS, functional diseases, Lightning Process.
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Other specific illnesses discussions
A place to discuss alternative diagnoses and possible co-morbidities
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Latest: Neuropsychological assessment detects patterns of dysfunction associated with brain injury livinglighter, Mar 25, 2023 at 7:57 PM -
Doctors, clinics and organisations discussions
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Living with ME/CFS discussions
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Latest: US - The Sleepy Girl Guide to Social Security Disability livinglighter, Mar 26, 2023 at 12:58 PM -
General ME/CFS discussions
For discussion topics that don't fit any of the named discussion forums.
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Latest: Published poetry books by people with ME/CFS Tom Kindlon, Mar 25, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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