Interesting - Solve article mentions people with another disease which could be responsible for their symptoms. Rates of misdiagnosis? Strategies...
Just started to look at this* - yea he seems to be a figure head - is he a (NIH) Director? Guess that "seriously asking patients to believe this?"...
Thanks - is there a form of words you would suggest i.e. instead of 'illness behaviour'? I'm thinking of the situation where you're responding to...
Offer of PDF on 1st page of this thread.
Oops - trying to recycle a standard message to NIH to look at this as a possible research area! [MEDIA]
Decided I'd try to flag this up to NIH i.e. potential research area. [MEDIA]
post-infection syndromes (used twice in the paper*) post-viral syndromes (used three times) adaptive sickness behaviours (used once) sickness...
Jonathan's (positive) post (above), read together with his positive comments here -...
Is messing around with statistics, i.e. to get a significant result, not effort preference --- reward driven! Trying to get something (anything)...
Insightful -- spent 8 years & $8 million -- some brainstorming & hey presto --- line to take is ---"The study provides irrefutable evidence for...
I agree fully - in a well understood/validated biomedical disease NIH's approach, in publishing at best a hypothesis paper i.e. without enough...
Decided to post this on Twitter i.e. in response to a Tweet by Janet Defoe --- It is, of course basically Jonathan's comment above but...
Jonathan "I think it may be useful to examine their attempts to analyse brain activity and the role of sympathetic drive. I am not convinced so...
Agree but one of the things I like about this forum is the suggestions re methodology - if the methodology is sound then that removes the...
Yea, but I think Jonathan's point was that the evidence is there that CBT &/or GET don't work ---. Logical inference is they don't work so don't...
similar study --- as in an fMRI---Long Covid study? At the very least the study should be conducted in a way which tests whether the fMRI signal...
Yea, at best they haven't disproved the idea that fMRI is a way to test the "sickness behaviour" hypothesis --- but they haven't added anything...
Nailed it! I think @JonathanEdwards made a similar point earlier - i.e. you'd need appropriate (disease) controls to establish whether this is...
Although we don't know if fMRI is measuring a real effect (correct?)--- if it is then these folks would need to demonstrate that CBT and GET ---...
Decided to post this on Twitter - basically @JonathanEdwards ideas - unattributed! [MEDIA]
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