The methodology will be as poor as is necessary to deliver the desired results.
Re point 2, the study has been 10 years in the making. The IOM definition came out 5 years ago. The study operationalized PEM in a more sensible...
The recent paper by Hanson had a discussion on acyl cholines which were found to be decreased in ME/CFS and which could be related to brain and...
I also noticed that the audience applauded in response to what it perceived as empowering, positive and courageous statements. I thought that is...
[MEDIA] She says she has fibromyalgia, that it can be treated by a mental health professional, that she was raped when she was younger and that...
@dave30th some patients accept and believe the idea that emotions are the root cause of their illness. Like Lady Gaga recently. Whether these...
Is there any reason to think this is not pure circular thinking? Someone made a long and varied list of symptoms they believe are caused by a...
Thanks this seems like a useful observation, even if I think we already knew that a lot of people presenting with possible (broadly defined?) CFS...
Exactly. Claims that this is a new approach should be seen as marketing for an empire building project (or perhaps a cost savings project). The...
Carnitine has been studied extensively because it is important to energy production and is a well-tolerated and generally safe therapeutic agent...
Yes, I forgot that my sleep was also negatively affected, but I continued and after a few weeks this disappeared. I take 500 mg because 1000 mg...
On the topic of treatments: So there is a total absence of treatments that are likely to be tested under conditions of adequate control of...
I wanted to write about my personal experience with carnitine as treatment for ME/CFS. I'll try to apply some critical thinking as well. A few...
One gets the impression the push for functional disorders is how the medical community in Denmark tries to deflect the suspicion that the HPV...
In the last decades, several works have reported changes in the epidemiology of EBV infection. For example, in Tokyo, Japan, and its neighboring...
Time for some satire: I've come up with a fantastically effective treatment. It involves threatening a person with 20 lashes from a whip if they...
Another problematic aspect is that patients are apparently de facto treated as having false illness beliefs on the basis that it's not possible to...
Something that also bothers me: How would one go about distinguishing biased self-reporting from an actual improvement caused by a placebo, in...
One gets the impression they think the root of the illness is a self-perpetuating negative thought process and the placebos are an acceptable way...
Wessely appears to be implying that placebos are an acceptable treatment for "subjective" conditions.
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