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It's so transparent. You'd think they'd be embarrassed.

*sad trombone noise*

As far as I can find out by googling, it's when blood vessels in a certain area of the brain react especially strongly to the vasoactive stimulus used in the scanning process. There can be a positive or negative correlation with the stimulus; in this case it's 'extremely positive'. I can't work...

I've emailed to suggest they correct the statement that 'Roughly one in 10 long Covid patients go on to be diagnosed with PTSD' - that's from a study following up hospitalised patients in 2021.

It's a shame the article leans so heavily on Ben Sinclair, but at least he doesn't get to do his psychobehavioural spiel.

oh dear...

Will do. Thank you!

11 months, god that's dreadful. Thanks for the advice. I'll end up cobbling something together!

No, there's a newer version since last year. Thank you so much for looking though.

I have to do a PIP review. I was hoping I'd be able to download the AR1 form as a PDF, fill it in on computer, print off and send it, which is what I did with the initial application. But the only AR1 form I can find on gov.uk has 'sample - do not use' across all the pages. Anyone know if...

"Correlation doesn't equal causation" is something they teach to primary-school children, but apparently you can skip that lesson and still go on to be a scientist.

One of those rather annoying articles in which the authors quite correctly make the point that the existing literature suffers from vagueness of definitions and un-generalisable findings, but go on to make confident statements based on that literature anyway.

Severity: 2.1 or 2.0 on FUNCAP. Most of day resting with feet up, can only leave house occasionally with a helper. Mostly managing to stick to a strict pacing routine (am lucky to have various kinds of help with this) and not getting PEM very often. Much more likely to have a PEM episode from...

I find the 'ignore' function really useful, to mute the parts of the forum that discuss psychosomatic stuff and certain practitioners of it. So I can go and look at those threads if I feel I want to know something, but they're not always in my eyeline and popping up on the 'Recent Posts' lists etc.

My first thought was that it's a shame the petition title is so bland; it might have got a lot more signatures if it was something punchy like 'Stop classifying ME/CFS as a psychiatric condition'. But then again, I can't imagine it would have got a different response from Elsevier if it had...

Dropout and spontaneous recovery rates are relevant, but the much bigger problem with this "audit" is that self-reports of improvement due to LP can't be taken at face value, because LP teaches participants to misreport. Self-reports would have to be checked against objective outcomes, and this...

"We told sick people that if they ever want to recover, it's crucial that they say they've already recovered. Then we asked them if they'd recovered and they said they had. Checkmate, critics!"

and paid sick leave. (Speaking of "Population-based initiatives [that] may alleviate the PCCD-related public health burden.")

... so basically they've found that Long Covid is somewhat more likely to affect people of lower socieconomic status.

I was interested until I read that! The images suggest a much more continuous monitoring, so are there different versions of the device? (I may well have misunderstood)