The article provides an interesting perspective, for it seems the "Placebo effect" is as much for the doctor as it is for the patient. The doctor...
That's what happened to me. The fact is that exercise in general is a terrible way to lose weight because it takes so much time to actually do...
Yes, what annoys me is the entire lack of consideration of rest days. An athlete doesn't do the same amount of training every day and neither...
The part that bothers me is they didn't bother to actually ask the women in the study what they thought was the cause as the first phase and then...
It was interesting that they withheld the actigraphy data from all of the primary publications and only published them in this study,
58% of the general population, sounds like it should be abandoned altogether due to lack of specificity.
Revisiting "The Sleeping Beauties", it's clear O'Sullivan doesn't care about letting the truth get in the way of a good story. I found this story...
I can't handle it, outrage drains too much energy, but sometimes it is unavoidable.
A key aspect in these experiments is although there is flinching behaviour, the participants don't actually feel pain when the fake hands are...
My grand unifying theory is that it is either damage to specific afferent nerves, or the subsequent sensitisation afferent nerves as they recover...
I am absolutely sure it is not a change in the lungs. It is not provision of fuels by the liver, we would see different hormonal responses...
The critical point is that those circuits regulate attentional and behavioural responses to pain (something that is very important to animal...
All of those examples are far more metabolically demanding compared to other tasks. Memory recall and relying on intuition (I have the same...
Maccallini is a smart guy, but I can't help but see these sorts of studies simply throwing up noise. He needs access to better data.
Morning cortisol is confounded when it is collected at a different amount of time after (usual) wake time for patients versus controls. Patients...
Firstly, the hardware/software analogy has no place in medicine or psychology as it is simply mind-body duality being rehashed with different...
As usual, the only meaningful objective outcome showed no difference.
Which symptoms though? I get different symptoms as a result of cognitive exertion (brain fog, headache, drowsiness) than I do from muscular...
The Guardian regularly writes articles like this, they're paid articles intended to sell books. The Guardian is very much an establishment...
Can you be more specific what you mean by PEM in this context (which symptoms)? PEM is not always experienced the same.
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