Not necessarily, and perhaps most probably not. They may be driven purely by peripheral immune signals or a mismatch in a regulatory process that...
Absolutely and without any justification. If FND is a useful label I don't think it can be applied to people without signs suggestive of a local...
In reality that depends entirely on the particular context. In each situation the relevant level depends on decades of experience with patterns of...
Indeed and if I am not mistaken these people are only too keen to release more flawed trials - except flawed in ways not on their list. There is...
This is quit interesting. I suspect it reflects the fact that six doctors prefer to tick the 'functional illness' box, 2 doctors like FND and one...
None of them knows I am afraid.
I think they might well do. The software/hardware analogy is never very good but as far as I know nobody has actually pinned down abnormalities in...
Nobody is disputing that and we are not even calling them psychogenic seizures. But there are people with seizure-like episodes that are...
Good point.
No, David, the symptoms fall into a specific category: abnormal movements, paralysis, sensory loss, blindness and seizure type movements all...
It seems people at MEA have learnt nothing at all. And have no understanding of the simple, clear, cogent arguments raised by members here. They...
The rule in signs prove to be pretty reliable. Not always and there are mistakes, but usually due to careless assessment. If you look at the...
The issue is that the symptoms actually have nothing to do with the hypermobility. There is no evidence that they do. The symptoms attributed to...
So what about schizophrenia and paranoid psychosis? Those are subtle dysfunctions of the brain's software that make people very ill indeed.
I am not sure what the problem is. For structural lesions neurologists have established that an expert clinical assessment can pin almost anything...
Yes this is exactly the sort of pseudoarithmetic nonsense we have seen with GRADE and RoB from statisticians. It has nothing whatever to do with...
Well you *****y well shouldn't @Hutan! 1. If someone does not have a full grasp of problem issues with trials and how to apply them consistently...
The point is the there is no need to suggest that the patient perceives something that isn't there. It is there and is perceived. But it may not...
It seems a farce. A bit like suggested criteria for bad music (some applied to Mozart and Wagner) 'Too many notes' 'Fails to use sonata form'...
I don't disagree with that for a minute. My point was that until things have actually changed in that way it may not necessarily be helpful to...
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