To what if I may ask? What is the goal? It seems that you have calculated the prevalence rate needed to get to a population of 250.000 ME/CFS...
Good idea, but I couldn't figure out how to nominate Vink for the Bill Silverman prize. If someone else figures it out, feel free to use my text...
Looks like a reasonable overview
Wessely has made the argument that the Oxford criteria require severe and disabling fatigue that affects both physical and mental functioning. For...
Trying to understand the drop-outs in this paper because, as Trish has pointed out, that seems to be the main issue in how the results are...
Revisiting this paper. Could someone help me to where the data on CFS are summarized? And is there information on how CFS diagnoses were made?...
Perhaps it was this study by Lakhani et al., that came out last year:...
Oh wow thanks. Congrats with the paper! Relevant section from the paper:
Could be selection bias here - patients who visited a post-COVID-19 outpatient clinic, might be preselected for having post COVID-19 symptoms....
I'm hoping to get an overview of biomedical abnormalities found in ME/CFS that were replicated by multiple groups. I realize that, due to the...
No problem, thanks for probing into these studies. We need more people like you who focus on dissecting biomedical ME/CFS research. More relevant...
I'm looking for evidence for a genetic component in ME/CFS and a discussion of the quality of evidence for each the studies. Here are some I...
Wow, I'm also impressed by this blog. It's very well written. This is a powerful quote: "The drive of the ME community to improve science has...
This is just a guess but I suspect there is little reliable evidence for mindfullness therapy for any of these disorders, probably mostly...
Some things that caught my attention. About the decode ME project On the department of work and pensions: On MERUK funding:
The comment by Smith reads: Which made me think: in what way are depression and anxiety better-validated disorders than ME/CFS?
The research article by Saunders is about "Somatic symptom and related disorders (SSRDs)". The article explains this category as follows. Don't...
Am I correct that this is a master thesis that tried to examine a hierarchical structure of 'soothing factors' in CFS patients, while only having...
Apparently not. It looks like the money is going to an Innovative Training Network (ITN) which falls under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions...
The statistical (Wilcoxon) tests did show some significant differences after Bonferonni corrections, most clearly for the M4-Musc-Receptor....
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