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That is an interesting hypothesis, that the success of the phsychosomatic medicine is, in part, socio-economic. I'm inclined after reading many threads on Reddit, that it is part of the simple need to provide any diagnostic label. This is what I have read so many medical professionals say - and...

Perhaps the psychologic interventions have lower placebo response because the patients are unblinded. For example, Prins 2001 had one of the lower placebo responses at 8.5%. Their methods demonstrate how it's obvious who is getting treatment. However the authors designed the paper, or...

A very difficult thread to follow @chrisb, but I will do my best. The modern avoidance with the term "illness behavior" seems reasonable because as @Trish pointed out, it's quite easy to debate what is/is not illness behavior in a particular condition. For example, the partial list of variables...

There are a myriad of plausible explanations but it is complicated that all PTSD sufferers are lumped together. It is not unlikely that the acute stress of war would cause physiological changes. That is very different from hysteria.

This is the paper related to this presentation "Different Shell, Same Shock". I don't have the whole paper but that's quite explicitly calling PTSD pure hysteria in 2017.

I'm impressed you know the plural of forum!

I think the concept is related to releasing metabolites like lactic acid in the local tissue. It seems similar to this Straud study, where they have patients do a grip exercise and use a cuff to trap the metabolites in the arms. The authors argued that was evidence of central sensitization (of...

Nicely written, specifically about the core issues of inviting a human rights violator to a medical conference at Columbia, while also touching on the concept and application of psychosomatic "medicine" as a whole. Always curious at how a mental illness manifests as a physical disorder and how...

It's literally impossible at any given time and with limited information. To some they extent they do - psychosis, delusiosn, etc. No one contests that, but this is not what the conference about. It's not about sweating mroe becuase you have anxiety. Non of those are psychosomatism.

What worries me is it's not just Per Fink. It's a discipline filled to the brim with professionals peering deep into the unconscious. I'm looking through that list of speakers and just cringing. Filled wiht plaudits from each other. Looks like there is as rampant support for MUS in Columbia...

Is this true? This review on brain temperature says "brain temperature itself largely depends on the summed effects of the following principle variables: brain metabolism, CBF and volume, and blood temperature". And this study from 2010 says

Cost and effort over ethics, that is clear. Brown's note made it clear he couldn't even be bothered.

One thing that is interesting about the Japanese PET (1) study is that areas that show up with reduced white matter (2) matched pretty similarly with areas that had increased "activated" astrocytes/microglia. Studies tend to find less blood in the brains of CFS patients or their brainstems (3)...

Ah I knew this was totally bs. And it's crazy how deep that stuff has saturated society. People in my school were given colleges to look at based on this test. Insanity. ???

There was just a blog post on PR about the Mayo Clinic [Jacksonville campus]

To me that was one of the reason why the definition was unsuitable - I suffer from [very] extreme fatigue of sudden, post-viral onset. Best explained by the IOM defnition. It might fit in as a neurological symptom or whatever, but both it's suddenness and severity are what make the illness so...

I can assure you that Afflicted is not changing the 'meddit' opinion, just reinforcing it, since that has been any and every thread I've read on ME/CFS on reddit since I started using the site a long time ago. About Reddit in general, I wouldn't get carried away that equals absolute voice of a...

So, correct me if I'm wrong but sensitization is common to a lot of receptors and occurs in a lot of diseases. It has definitely popped up with ME/CFS. But do they provide any source that CBT/GET are effective at desenstizing anything? The treatment, I'm sure is less greed, but more absence of...

I guess the good news is I see some researchers I like and some interesting studies I didn't know about but it is quite sparse this year. Bascially, the NIH won't alter it's funding mechanism to try to nudge in what they see as weak proposals (and some certainly are) just to up the budget. I...

But what does Alan Davies think of all this???