No, the article is definitely talking about epileptic seizures. Its actually quite interesting. I suppose we already know that intense light and...
:jawdrop::jawdrop: News flash: "Anhedonia, which is one of the diagnostic criteria for depression, is present in people who have been diagnosed...
Soooooo... if we just ask patients to report their symptoms in a questionnaire, without bothering to consider what caused them, we gets lot of...
Yes! And then isomehow this very limited phenomenon is then used to as evidence to support loose and free psychological ideas of pain...
@Milo, there was quite a bit of talk about it on this thread:...
You are kind, @shak8. But look at some of the things they say: So, make the pain in the periphery go away and so too will the "central...
I'm not even sure there is such a thing as central sensitisation. Period. Its a collection of phenomena defined by what they aren't, not what they...
Yes, they admit as much.
I just read the whole thing and I feel dirty. There is a whopping big table with a shopping list of all the "predisposing", "precipitating" and...
Absolutely, @Snowdrop. I think Psychiatry is in a deep crisis, with a huge chasm between those who are embracing biological psychiatry, and those...
Oh, yes, everything has a psychological component. I suggest we ensure that any patient admitted to hospital for neurological problems has done...
Maybe that's not within his power?
@dave30th, its my impression that Jess Fiedorowicz is very much trying to clean up the dodgy science in this area and improve the quality of the...
No, I think they dug through literature for trials that ran in two phases - blinded and nonblinded.
Actually the PACE trial's pre-registered primary outcomes were binary (whether fatigue was substantially reduced at trial end point, and also...
When is lack of scientific integrity a reason for retracting a paper? A case study. Abstract: Objective: The present and past editors of this...
Yes to this! Why do we need to prove that neglecting people in distress or treating people badly "causes health problems" in order to justify not...
Don't know about Ros Vallings' bit, but I'm guessing this bit on its own is going to be enough to wind us up!
That doesn't even begin to make sense. How can you have FND - which literally means you have neurological symptoms that are yet to be linked to...
CBT a "high bar" :rofl::rofl::rofl:!!! Just thinking on it a bit more, it reminds me of the "recovery" stuff. Since these psychological...
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