That is an interesting hypothesis, that the success of the phsychosomatic medicine is, in part, socio-economic. I'm inclined after reading many...
Perhaps the psychologic interventions have lower placebo response because the patients are unblinded. For example, Prins 2001 had one of the lower...
A very difficult thread to follow @chrisb, but I will do my best. The modern avoidance with the term "illness behavior" seems reasonable because...
There are a myriad of plausible explanations but it is complicated that all PTSD sufferers are lumped together. It is not unlikely that the acute...
This is the paper related to this presentation "Different Shell, Same Shock". I don't have the whole paper but that's quite explicitly calling...
I'm impressed you know the plural of forum!
I think the concept is related to releasing metabolites like lactic acid in the local tissue. It seems similar to this Straud study, where they...
Nicely written, specifically about the core issues of inviting a human rights violator to a medical conference at Columbia, while also touching on...
It's literally impossible at any given time and with limited information. To some they extent they do - psychosis, delusiosn, etc. No one...
What worries me is it's not just Per Fink. It's a discipline filled to the brim with professionals peering deep into the unconscious. I'm looking...
Is this true? This review on brain temperature says "brain temperature itself largely depends on the summed effects of the following principle...
Cost and effort over ethics, that is clear. Brown's note made it clear he couldn't even be bothered.
One thing that is interesting about the Japanese PET (1) study is that areas that show up with reduced white matter (2) matched pretty similarly...
Ah I knew this was totally bs. And it's crazy how deep that stuff has saturated society. People in my school were given colleges to look at based...
There was just a blog post on PR about the Mayo Clinic [Jacksonville campus]
To me that was one of the reason why the definition was unsuitable - I suffer from [very] extreme fatigue of sudden, post-viral onset. Best...
I can assure you that Afflicted is not changing the 'meddit' opinion, just reinforcing it, since that has been any and every thread I've read on...
So, correct me if I'm wrong but sensitization is common to a lot of receptors and occurs in a lot of diseases. It has definitely popped up with...
I guess the good news is I see some researchers I like and some interesting studies I didn't know about but it is quite sparse this year....
But what does Alan Davies think of all this???
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