'Spoonie' as in 'spoon theory' (metaphor for fluctuating energy-limitations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory There's plenty of...
A writing process where just a few main characters are three-dimensional humans and the rest are cartoon comic figures or monsters can work nicely...
Some of it's not bad but it's peppered with over-confident and under-evidenced statements. e.g. that "activity can safely be increased" once...
This is one of the top stories on the BBC News website just now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpz163vg2o Steven Bartlett sharing...
At least it wasn't AI-generated; ChatGPT would have put a random number in rather than a placeholder.
- and if not now, when? The time has never been so ripe to achieve some change, with awareness at such a (relative) high, and a current momentum...
Saw it on Mastodon https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_neursci/113628238034821270 and it sparked half a memory of someone commenting on here about...
Preprint Abstract Background: Sex differences have been widely demonstrated in both acute and chronic pain. Sex differences may have wider impact...
Also, In other words, more than 80% of patients showed no sign of pain catastrophizing, despite having a serious disabling illness. But they're...
We should be grateful that at least their grab-bag of 'strategies' doesn't include 'go stick your head in a pig'.
Garner's understanding of classical conditioning seems to be that the dog's salivating causes the food to arrive.
My Fitbit also gave me scarily low HRV readings, so I looked on their community forums and saw lots of other people saying theirs were also giving...
At least they didn't give the mice questionnaires afterwards to see if the swimming exercise produced improvements on self-reported fatigue scores.
"a state of CFS in mice was induced by forcing them to swim daily for 6 min for 15 days" distressing and pointless
Evolutionary adaptation is just something that happened to other people...
Uh huh. Hmm.
Yes (ME triggered by Covid) - both physical and mental exertion leave me short of breath now. I'm not overweight, mid 40s and no other medical...
A finding of reduced neural activation during interoceptive tasks would seem to conflict with the hypothesis that FND patients are paying too much...
Somebody could usefully ask how many of those services are due to close in the next few months (as my local one is), or have already closed,...
nope, you don't get to sneer about people being oversensitive if they disagree with you and then turn round and preach that "we must all come...
Separate names with a comma.
