This is not a subject which I purport to know anything about, but the mention of bluish colouring and the cold feet reminded me of Raynaud's...
Well, yes and no. It depends what you mean by a long time. God knows where we would be had it not been for some UK medicine pre about 1990.
I was recently thinking about this idea in relation to Wessely's outpourings between 1989 and 1991, all apparently based largely on the same...
Could you please explain how you reach that conclusion from the paragraph which you quote. I must be being dim even by my standards.
How come there are a large number of people with ME who do not suffer significant pain on an ongoing basis?
There are interesting analogies to be drawn. It seems that the paper acknowledges that anxiety was for many a response to the diagnosis of MS. Is...
It can, at least, be said that this therapist is no more bizarre than a certain Michael Sharpe: (Of treatment with CBT) It is useful at this...
Yes. Publication tomorrow of the New Years Honours List is awaited with keen anticipation.
Is that gratitude for the bread and circuses? If we're lucky, that is.
What they seem not to understand is that rest is not optional. It is forced upon one. Without it one will come to a complete halt in an...
Were do they find them? EDIT Perhaps there is an alternative hypothesis, that only those who don't really try very hard to get better do. EDIT...
Surely not better than those of people already perfect at the art.
Can a mind be inflamed, other than metaphorically? Presumably a brain, or parts of a brain, might be.
In some ways the discussion of fatigue reminds me of the discussion of hysteria by Slater. Words that appear useful as adjectives may be worthless...
I am not at all sure about the significance of the increase in number of doctor consultations in the 10 years prior to diagnosis. It may be...
Might one not reasonably expect there to be a peak at 18-21, the age when many people move and are exposed to new pathogens. Although not an old...
Just a general point. Are these the sole data to support the "twin peak" hypothesis? The data are from a single country and over a relatively...
That equipoise! One should never be without it.
I suspect that she meant the plural, "axes". There is mention in the literature of assessing the symptoms on various different axes, though there...
It is natural that the degree of scrutiny should be commensurate with the degree of publicity and the claims made for the paper. It is perhaps...
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