The "functional somatic symptoms" here were measured by asking people to report any aches/pains, headache, nausea, stomach pain, vomiting,...
Why oh why do these studies get published when there is no appropriate control group? An appropriate control group might be young people with...
PS On re-reading, this point seemed interesting (I've edited out some of the jargon): After wading through the jargon, I came out with the point...
Thanks, @SNT Gatchaman, I actually read the paper! Some interesting thoughts if you can wade through the jargon - not entirely new, but there are...
Agree, this is super dumb. As @rvallee says, this study confuses two very different things: - the normal, transient ECG changes that occur when...
This is just a bad piece. The Yerkes-Dodson Law does not have anything to say about perfectionism or effort at all. Its about the role of...
Once you've seen the massive problems with psychogenic reasoning you cannot unsee them: its reliance on the absence of evidence - rather than the...
Yea, the hardware vs. software narrative is the most dualistic thing I've ever heard. Its saying "if we can't see any actual brain tissue damage,...
Yea, that's right, there's a block design subtest in the WAIS, where you have to arrange patterned blocks to reproduce a design. The puzzles...
@SNT Gatchaman, I like your cautious sceptical appraoch to this. But I think the DMN is more than a vascular anomaly, because of the specific...
Hi @Ravn, I teach a little about the default mode network (DMN) in my cognitive neuroscience classes. The DMN is a bunch of brain structures which...
Yay, nice to see people addressing the dangers of overuse of the assumption that unusual symptoms = FND = a psychological problem.
It's interesting, @Ravn. I saw this paper where it was used to assess concussion: https://downloads.corticalmetrics.com/pub/Pearce2021.pdf?n=1...
Hardware vs. software Yes, talk about dualistic. Its pure cartesian dualism!
I just had a look. The article consists of a description of a plan for treating people diagnosed with motor FND as part of a two-week in-patient...
I had a peek. He says he has an "interest in schizoid PD", which ironically would seem to be to be one of the most theoretically shaky constructs...
Like @Jonathan Edwards, I winced at the sheer length of this list. It seems to me to undermine the case this person is trying to make rather than...
Smells a bit off to me, this. Pupillometry is used a lot in cognitive psychology because pupils are markers of all sorts of things. People's...
I've been thinking about this in the context of my own work life. It seems to me that "burnout" is used to mean something really different from...
My experience of living in the US - some decades ago) really brought this home to me. I was struck by the incredibly strong pressure people felt...
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