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Bashing your head against a wall here brings vegetable spring rolls and laksa curry. :ninja:

"thrilled", "excited", etc...

Exactly. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Yep. That is exactly what has happened. Good catch. Any argument that characterises PEM as 'discomfort' is invalid from the start, and for somebody in a very senior position, like Walitt is, it cannot be excused as ignorance or inexperience. It is deliberate obfuscation and misdirection. Once...

If there is any idea whose validity history has completely shredded beyond all debate, it is the just world.

Two overarching findings observed in all FND subtypes include symptom variability and a grimacing expression while following the clinician’s instructions during the physical examination (2). WTF?!? Every time you think these idiots couldn't possible get any worse, there they go and prove you...

I think SequenceME is the one we should be pushing for now.

Burton writing about stigmatisation of these conditions is rich, given his track record of psycho-stigmatisation of these conditions.

We did, the 2002 guidelines. But they are way out of date, and were not done by the NHMRC but by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

The shift away from terminologies such as “psychogenic” or “conversion” disorders underscores advances in how FND is conceptualized marketed.

Moderate-certainty evidence indicates CBT may reduce fatigue and improve cognitive function in long COVID. Those two things don't belong together. I wonder if that was forced on them by the reviewers/editors?

Any discussion of the possibility that the FSD label/concept is invalid, irrelevant, and highly counterproductive?

Several behavioural therapies are efficacious for global symptoms in IBS, although the most evidence exists for those classed as brain–gut behaviour therapies. However, certainty in the evidence for all direct and indirect comparisons across the network were rated as either low or very low...

$13,567 :thumbup:

This. I have yet to see any evidence for the value in using a single monitoring measure. But there might be a case, at least at the research level, for using a suite of them. Basically anything that can be monitored in real time, real life situations, for an extended time, at least 1-2 days...

for patients with chronic diseases, simply encouraging increased physical activity may not be sufficient if prolonged sedentary behavior is left unaddressed. Interventions that break up sedentary time, such as promoting LPA throughout the day, could be more effective in reducing fatigue, likely...

...to inform personalized fatigue management. The results suggest that reduced physical activity, increased sedentary behavior and autonomic dysfunction are associated with fatigue levels across multiple disease conditions included in this review, though the strength of this association and...

Exactly. They have to be relevant (and correctly interpreted). No point in measuring somebody's height in order to determine their red blood cell count.

Avoid: We don’t really know. Cowards. And they have they nerve to regard us as pathetic fragile snowflakes.

First of three done. :thumbup: