Nice shark. Out of curiosity, do you know why they repeated the experiment with heated plasma? Was it important to prove that it's a biological...
That would fit with my case. Before a more definite onset, there was a prodromal phase lasting a few years with occasional weird symptoms, and...
Yet another comment I can believe that conversion syndrome resembles ME/CFS because it's just one of the many labels that get applied to...
Another comment The idea that being a father to and living in the same household as a patient would make someone an unreliable researcher isn't...
One comment says Obtaining a complete separation of ME/CFS patients and controls on a biological measure is actually very difficult. I'm not...
It's being discussed on the medicine subreddit. Always interesting to see how they react to this kind of news. [MEDIA]
The cumulative and possibly delayed effect suggests that it's more a problem of sustainability than an inability to generate energy (although that...
If you said to a person that knows little about ME/CFS: Many things written about ME/CFS in textbooks and published peer reviewed science papers...
It's just annoying that the same people who publish and/or defend harmful junk science then caution again overoptimism.
Is it possible doctors deny the patient's reality because they cannot emotionally handle how awful and devastating chronic illness is?
Check here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2553945 I think that initially the motivation behind the psychologization of ME and CFS was to...
In the late 80's he and a few others promoted the belief that CFS is a state of deconditioning and unhelpful illness beliefs. This had a...
Credulous belief in psychogenic illness destroys lives. Society hasn't yet learned the lesson and thinks psychologies explanations and therapies...
Vogt and that cardiologist demonstrate why we need an diagnostic test: to put an end to the baseless psychogenic illness theories.
Or maybe because you're studying mostly people that will get better within a year and never develop CFS. The comment about expectancies also...
This is not a validated measure of PEM. Maybe they didn't find differences between diagnostic criteria because they didn't use them properly?
In principle, the idea of following patients with EBV infection and taking blood for some tests seems a good one. They say that but I cannot...
This was today. Any news?
Wessely is probably trying to say, without actually saying it, that the observed effect is due to deconditioning.
It shows why we need this test ;).
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