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Reduction in serotonin transporters in the brain wouldn't necessarily correlate with overall serotonin level in the blood?

Just wondered if the #ThereforME campaign is aware of/has signed the petition? (sorry if I've missed it)

It's the kind of thing you find in Peter Gladwell's stuff about 'if you choose to increase your baseline...'

I notice in Table IV that all the women who said the intervention was helpful rated the helpfulness as 'small-moderate'. Of the two men who said it was helpful, one rated the helpfulness 'small-moderate' and one 'big'.

I googled 'butyrate diet'. The second hit was a study in mice finding that a high butyrate diet made them more susceptible to e coli, and the third was the Cleveland Clinic saying high butyrate levels can cause bloating in those with a 'sensitive gut'.

These guys heard about psychology's falsification crisis and said 'hold my aperitivo'.

Just deep, regular breathing basically! There's a feature on the app to guide you in doing it. Plus some blurb about its supposed benefits.

I've done that, but thank you for offering! Got a reply saying they would raise it at the weekly meeting where they discuss user feedback.

I've been using Visible for a few weeks and I'm pleased with it as a pacing aid. However I've been trying the 'coherent breathing' feature the last few days and finding it makes me feel worse; it also lowers my HRV, when the advertised purpose is to raise it. Today I scrolled through the...

Broadly agree from my experience of Long Covid: first few months featured significant fatigue and generally feeling dreadful and fuzzy in the brain, but the OI/PEM stuff (including the urgent need to lie flat at times) didn't develop until months 3-5 ish. I generally prefer resting sitting in a...

Just so tired of this 'Patients reported cognitive symptoms, but we ran some brief and limited cognitive tests and didn't find much, so they must be imagining it' routine.

She's very good. You can see the strain of talking but she makes her points clearly.

We can only hope the contributing members won't be the same ones who wrote this stuff in the BPS Response to the NICE consultation on the Draft Guideline on Management of Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 in December 2020: https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-06/BPS Response to the NICE...

See rvallee's post above in this thread re Cambridgeshire & Peterborough https://www.s4me.info/threads/curable-mind-brain-training-app-and-me-cfs-including-the-role-of-fiona-symington.37776/page-6#post-523596

... when you test for it using blunt instruments that don't properly identify it, and refuse to do any more specific testing on the grounds that it would 'medicalise' the situation. Then you can happily reassure yourself that the patients are wrong, you are right, and all is for the best in the...

I wonder if there's any way to report these deteriorations, like the Yellow Card system for adverse events/side effects with medication?

The Telegraph continuing its efforts to ensure that the public health response to the next pandemic will be even worse than the last one.

And NHS clinics are pushing this app on patients. (Because they really think it works, or just because it's cheap and they think the patients aren't really suffering from anything that could be made worse by mismanagement? Either way, horrible.)

I think the tweeter might be confusing association and causation.

I notice Louise Cummings' name in that list - she published this on language and cognition impairment in Long Covid, which looks like she understands it pretty well. (I especially liked her discussion of how traditional cognitive testing is inadequate to identify these impairments)...