So there's a big overlap, with the lower bound only 0.1 of a point apart and the upper bound 0.8 of a point apart, and most participants in both...
Or perhaps it suggests that people who are ill may have particular pressures influencing their choices in lab-based tasks that have no relevance...
i.e. the LC patients' interoception was accurate, which will be annoying for those at the NIH who want LC to be an 'interoceptive disorder'.
It might be an accessible income stream for some people who haven't actually recovered to the point where they could go back to their previous jobs.
Also the idea that the patient will feel better and recover if you confidently "reassure" them by telling them any old explanation for their...
Stuart Murdoch on Craig Charles' show on 6 Music this afternoon. If you find the show on BBC Sounds, the interview starts about an hour in. Early...
One of those resources which seems as if whoever wrote it didn't bother to read what they were writing. Don't focus too much on your symptoms -...
Is there much discussion of how the illness could develop in someone who didn't have any of the "predisposing" factors? (Obviously it's moot in...
This, and perhaps to address the elephant in the consulting room by including some information for HCPs who still take the psychological view of...
Advice on applying for disability benefits, blue badge, work accommodations etc. How to convey the extent of your limitations with a fluctuating...
Perhaps because of the unspoken feeling that if a disease isn't real, it's unimportant if the research into it isn't real either - no one's going...
A lot of good stuff in this paper, I think. Especially this paragraph: and I like that they seem to be aware that strategies to counteract...
The Irish Times has a plug for the Perrin technique today. Paywalled, archive link here (hope it works)...
The funny thing is, out of context, "fatigue may arise from a mismatch between what someone thinks they can achieve and what their bodies perform”...
The utter dishonesty of giving ill and exhausted people questionnaires with items like 'I keep wondering why I can't concentrate' and 'I keep...
A cynical person might suspect that this study's primary objective was to provide something to prop up a grant application.
If the client gets better, the method is working; if the client gets worse, they weren't following the method properly. The method cannot fail, it...
Which safety measures didn't?
So we have 'PEM' being used as a vague and muddy term for any general post-activity tiredness, understood to be one possible feature of...
It's the 'social contagion' idea again, I think. 'All these people can't really be disabled/neurodivergent/trans, they're just latching onto a...
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