Morning cortisol is confounded when it is collected at a different amount of time after (usual) wake time for patients versus controls. Patients...
Firstly, the hardware/software analogy has no place in medicine or psychology as it is simply mind-body duality being rehashed with different...
As usual, the only meaningful objective outcome showed no difference.
Which symptoms though? I get different symptoms as a result of cognitive exertion (brain fog, headache, drowsiness) than I do from muscular...
The Guardian regularly writes articles like this, they're paid articles intended to sell books. The Guardian is very much an establishment...
Can you be more specific what you mean by PEM in this context (which symptoms)? PEM is not always experienced the same.
No, because the funding has been pared way back and now we have to compete with LC studies generating data on other aspects of LC or other low...
This is interesting, was their any particular sticking point? Or was it the fact that he was unwilling to throw out/re-think much of the findings...
That's not what they found at all. While they reported exercise was more strenuous during the task, they found that people who felt exhausted due...
Because instead of learning from the past, old mistakes are being repeated and COVID/LongCOVID is soaking up much of the research funding and...
Standing up for the first time in 2 years is still a long way from remission. It could simply be natural recovery.
That is not the main intention of Engles. The "biopsychosocial model" is not really about determinants of health, because it's not a scientific...
The key point about such a study focusing on long-term outcomes of surgery, or population based studies in general is the incidence of ME/CFS is...
This doesn't necessarily scale though - if more people did it, the total amount raised might not be much more. Raising money through online...
Most persistent infections do so because they mess with the immune system. We know the severity of SARS-2 was primarily due to avoiding the...
Society has been ignoring growing disabilities (prevalence) of all types for years now, LC is not much different in that regard.
There is no generalised increase in extracellular ATP, but there could be in specific tissues. Sympathetic nerves secrete eATP which can activate...
Pilot studies can't really be used to judge efficacy, but I can tell from the outset this intervention won't work because it's based on a deeply...
Let s4me allocate it over time (say a period of 10-15 years). I don't really have great hopes otherwise. LongCOVID has set things backwards...
Basically some people are recovering naturally, adjusting their activity levels naturally and these "rehabilitation specialists" are thinking...
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