Most patients don't have low cortisol, if you review the literature... Some patients have flatter daily cortisol profile compared to healthy...
Those people who have read the articles, do any of them describe polio-like illnesses on onset, eg acute flacid paralysis or other severe weakness...
Their neuroendocrine model seems very different from my understanding (and I've spent years reading the papers... They seem to be...
Retrospective studies like this can only ever be considered suggestive, rather than conclusive evidence suggesting some sort of causation (which...
Relapse/remitting. This onset is actually far more common than has been discussed in the literature.
Convenience samples (strong selection biases) and equivocal results from similar studies. Hopefully no one will form any conclusions based on this...
If she's exiting the CFS field, then surely this is a good thing?
I must say I am a little disappointed that he'd leave without warning... Who is replacing him?
We aren't nematodes and we aren't hibernating. Telomere shortening is potentially consistent with chronic illness...
Side question: are there any articles like this in the Italian media?
Some researchers seem to confuse the directionality between cause and effect due to preconceived biases...
Was that the one where they're just like "there were no differences, data not shown" or something to that effect?
Guys, epidemiological research like this often isn't perfect but is better to be done than not done, in terms of hypothesis generation, even with...
the "stigmatising" research is a deliberate strawman/mischaraterisation. We aren't critical because it's psychological research, we're critical of...
What evidence? That CBT/GET don't lead to objective improvements in functioning and no difference in self reports at the long term followup in the...
The results of this study are likely true -there is no major effect of HRV or cerebral blood flow post 'mild' exercise. I am basing my opinion on...
Is it though? I mean almost no one actually reads what Malcom Hooper writes as it is way too long and nitpicky.
We know this is true. This is why the PACE trial was funded by the DWP - to achieve a goal. Of course it backfired as the study showed no long...
Yes. Sadly some, like David Tuller, Malcolm Hooper don't seem to understand this. You don't throw everything you have in hope that something...
Notice how dualistic this is? Patients are accused of being mind-body dualists, but assuming medically unexplained disorders* should primarily be...
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