Though men with ME may be gaslighted, I suspect that on average we are better treated than women with ME, and also had ME not been a condition...
Is the issue that any research needs to involve some evaluation of subjects total activity level during the research process? This is in relation...
Reading this thread highlights how important it is for access to forums to share information like this; to develop a collective repository of the...
To conclude that ‘life stressors’ of themselves are significant contributors to symptom exacerbation you need to be able to distinguish between...
I am half remembering from somewhere a useful wording that indicated the need for patient involvement in planning but how to avoid a tame user...
This might be too specific for your intentions, but I would want to reiterate ‘wherever possible use objective outcome measures’, ‘in unblinded...
Yes ‘convergent evidence’ does not mean lots of evidence from repeated use of the same experimental design, but rather evidence from very...
Doesn’t it depend where you are in the British Isles? When I lived in a part of Scotland with high numbers of sheep, but low numbers of red deer,...
As a psychology undergraduate in the late 1970s and then involved in clinical research in the early 1980s, we were very much taught that self...
Here is a novel idea, how about demonstrating with objective outcome measures that you have any interventions that would with individual patient...
As well as contradicting those that believe exercise is always the answer, if confirmed this is important in relation to the belief of...
Not sure which thread would be best to post this, but have included it here as it is in effect a comment on the draft guidelines. Goodelf has...
Following @Mithriel ’s line of discussion would this ‘model’ predict enjoyable or pleasurable activities to be less harmful than negative...
One of my few brushes with ‘celebrity’ was meeting the family that the gangsters in Get Carter were later based on. That was back in the day when...
But we don’t want a MEGA Carta.
To be pedantic technically we can only say that there is no environmental or external reason for ‘these signals to be sent’ or these sensations to...
Subjectively seeing the same trusted health professionals over time is much more preferable than an ever changing sequence of strangers, however...
Thank you @Hutan for providing this useful summary.
Prof Crawley has avoided saying much in research papers about aetiology, but in the press she has repeatedly referred to ME/CFS as having...
So counter productive this distinction between CFS and ME and the assertion that such as GET or CBT is relevant to CFS. There is no evidence than...
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