Doubt it. You see this sort of nonspecific result in all kinds of brain problems.
I expected the worst possible outcome because the issue is far bigger than ME/CFS, it's all psychosocial trials. The whole thing would need to be...
One paper I saw on functional weakness found abnormal activation in DLPFC which is also involved in affective disorders and this was interpreted...
There's clearly a concerted global effort to rebrand all these disorders of unknown aetiology under the MUPS/functional umbrella and cart all...
OMG. I had no idea. I always thought the head position was quite painful and unnatural.
I don't want to criticise a graduate student too harshly. But this isn't an English literature or business administration degree, it's healthcare....
My impression is that EDS (the hypermobility one that conveniently has no identified genes) is the diagnosis du jour by some physicians who want...
What plan of action? Any action an ME patient takes generally makes the condition worse. There are no evidence-based treatments and no known...
Another thing I found weird is that one of the interventions was raising arms above the head. I mean, don't many of us do this when washing hair,...
Another thing I thought was weird is that baseline measurements of heart rate were taken in 2013 and then there's a big gap until 2016 when...
Very strange, content-free abstract. I can't figure out what the intervention involved.
Full text up now: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/dtb.2018.000035
Central sensitisation: the latest Swiss army knife explanation for every chronic problem they can't treat.
I've had near-identical experiences in partial remission periods: hiking for miles without rapid muscle fatiguability and PEM, followed by a...
Unsurprising. You find similarly weak relationship between objective and subjective cognitive dysfunction in other brain conditions like...
Another one bites the dust. I guess.
I saw a fundraiser just yesterday for a young woman in NZ where the same claim was made, i.e. that CCI surgery is not available there. This...
IMO, a blinded study where neurologists/neurosurgeons who are not affiliated with those clinics performing surgeries on ME patients rate MRIs of...
Um yeah ok geniuses and what if the non-patient patient has 'incidental' flu-like symptoms all the time or every time they exert themselves like...
Me neither. I am very grateful to Jen for her advocacy. I think it's been effective. I just couldn't relate to her presentation at all and as a...
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