This looks interesting and the kind of work that is needed and I hope it will be properly funded and well executed.
I see a correlation between feeling poorly, low and irritable mood and diarrhea. Many people would see that as confirmation that the root problem...
Can you explain how you can be sure that your symptoms are mediated by anxiety?
My take on this. It is probably heterogeneous but I suspect not as much as some people think. The reason for the perception of CFS being very...
Since nobody is a perfectly average person without any life stressors it is always possible to create a narrative of this or that character flaw...
As one would expect to occur merely due to differences in the severity of the health problem(s) faced by the patients. A person with mild...
When a person thinks they have special insight that others lack that allows them to know about invisible and unobservable causes of disease they...
Is this venture capitalist unable to assess claims of treatment efficacy and a little gullible or does he not care whether it really works or not?
Since reading the post saying to avoid touching our faces and thinking "why not", I have touched my face several times. Oh well, at least ME...
There appears to be a push to legitimize this pseudoscientific idea. Pseudoscientific because they are claiming to know that something causes...
This is maybe relevant https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/work-as-an-expert
I am not sure you are following my line of though. I am certain the EU will have some sort of advisor or grant application reviewer that will be...
Something else is that maybe the anecdotal positive effect of magnesium is related to improved brain blood flow.
Very nice. Just the other day I was thinking that maybe the best treatment approach that we have at the moment would be to try and get blood flow...
It doesn't, but it means more jobs for CBT therapists. And by I mean it doesn't, I mean there's no credible evidence any treatment to be found in...
You appear to be saying that that maybe there is some psychotherapy, done the right way, that works. I on the other hand think that the fact...
I think the counterargument for your proposed theoretical role of psychological processes is precisely the lack of effect of psychological...
To put this into perspective, this is (I strongly suspect) psychologists explaining a controversy to the public that involves disagreement between...
In multiple sclerosis what I would call disease process is the brain lesions and demyelinization. Which also have their own upstream causes which...
Psychologists seem to think of illness as a set of symptoms (that includes mental ones). I and presumably other patients think of illness as...
Separate names with a comma.
