Does the paper show the normal and the positive PCS?
A subunit the mitochondrial complex V was also abnormal. That's similar to the complex V inefficiency previously reported.
How about "interventions designed to induce response bias" as name for the phenomenon? The bias operating here is not unusual. It's just what's...
Another round of cheers and applause for the ethics committee and the premature demise of this LP study. :):party::balloons:
One could also view it as defect in study design rather than as form of bias. Then it's perhaps easier to describe: It is especially important to...
Instruction bias? When research participants are instructed to report an improvement in health or instructed to view their health in more...
Some hypotheses of how functional neurological disorders arise involve abnormal attention towards symptoms.
He is also naive. A few months of illness and he feels ready to dismiss the patient community and give lessons on how to recover. Does it ever...
Possibly related to this: I had a very substantial improvement for a few days. I was able to do strenuous physical activity for an hour or two...
I think patients have the right to object to prominently displayed - misrepresention of their illness in medical journals - dubious claims about...
This appears to explain why Wessely advances the view that placebos are an effective treatment. If placebos were considered inefective, there...
Patients coming up with their own interpretations about the cause of their illness is often the result of medical neglect. They're trying to take...
The psychiatrist who recently claimed long covid is mass hysteria trained at McMaster university.
First it was the lesbian wellness collective that invented long covid. Then the chronic fatigue lobby caused an epidemic of this made-up condition...
What's being invalidated is usually not whether the patient is having symptoms, but whether these symptoms are normal or not, and whether they are...
I thought this was an interesting observation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice It appears that we're still in the process of...
Yes that's my feeling as well. The impression is that there is an interaction between dysautonomia and PEM that affects the symptom profile of PEM.
The slide nailed it, except for the part about pacing preventing severe ME. We don't really know that. It is however very sensible to recommend...
I have decided that my postexertional malaise has changed compared to last year. There is less malaise and less of the feeling of overstimulation....
Another example that the idea of exercise always being helpful for every illness is wrong.
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