I may be being naively optimistic but I saw this week as a final mic drop by PACE defenders. Picking up their ball and running home because...
...and, to be fair to them, sometimes ME patients and their advocates do use imprecise language that could imply that mental illness is not a...
Replication of earlier groups’ results is critical here: there is overlap between results but it is not 1:1. It is especially needed for...
100% this. Also, if we give the impression of stigmatising mental illness it opens us to the charge of opposing BPS-based treatments because we...
I tend to agree with this. I'm actually not a big fan of the ME Association's "It's real. It's physical. It's ME" slogan for those very reasons:...
I suppose at least if he's metaphorically attacking the ME/CFS community he's not non-metaphorically attacking his pregnant girlfriend*. Re an...
I'm impressed with Cara Tomas and the team working with Professor Newton: they seem to be taking a steady, methodological approach to assessing...
This, this and this again. I'm not wedded to a particular set of diagnostic criteria but the presence of PEM is an absolute must. Only thing I'd...
Personally I try and avoid all treatments and supplements as I've not seen good evidence for any of them and I'm worried about making things...
Yep, but that just makes the caffeine hit more effective
So funny I almost choked on my homeopathic latte.
If she's been diagnosed with epilepsy (per JE's comment above) then the first bit pre-seizure could be an initial partial seizure (an 'aura')....
Thanks @Woolie, this is fascinating. Long may it continue. I'd also be interested in anybody else's experiences with Cimetidine or Ranitidine...
I did wonder if that graph - which if I'm reading it correctly suggests that published studies shower a stronger heretibility component to this...
So, to try and answer my own question, I've had a play with the data and I think what it shows is this (my knowledge of heritability statistics is...
Definitely. If you earn more than £1,000 in a year then you must fill out a self-assessment and can be fined for not doing so (even if you had no...
Thanks for posting, Chris. I'd be interested to know how ME/CFS compares with depression on the 'Environment' point - can anybody here who's able...
Some interesting posts above regarding the definitions we use when we're talking mental/physical/psychological. FWIW (and if this is too far...
Agreed. To be fair to the authors, the paper itself does make clear that this only *might* be a model for ME/CFS - it is the follow-up reporting...
All what follows is IMHO, obviously: So my view would be no - personally I would just chalk this up as another scientific paper with mildly...
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