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This infamous study should send a chill down anyone’s spine. Despite clear evidence of organic disease and a fatal outcome, they still would not admit that they were wrong about FND. I hear this a lot anecdotally as well. Cases where someone was told they had FND, then a real diagnosis is made...

We can expect to see quite a bit of this scrambling to reposition now that updated technologies like 7 tesla MRI scanners are becoming available. Any new diagnostic procedure in neurology puts a lot of psychobabble careers at risk.

You have got to be kidding me. What medical records did they keep in Malawi in 1900?

The problem with this is that it’s obviously moving the goalposts. CBT for nonepileptic seizures is billed as curative, not supportive, just like CBT for ME/CFS. When CODES showed that CBT doesn’t work, the redefined the goal of treatment as supportive/palliative. Ok so you still have...

I was dreading what this would be about after reading the title but then it turned out to be a surprise.

Yep. But recruiting sick controls who are as inactive as us is very challenging. I don’t know anyone who moves as little as me. Even people with cancer seem more active than me.

This looks quite useful. Wouldn’t really regard it as psychosomatic research.

Another hyped paper bites the dust.

We have every reason to be super cautious. Have the genetic association studies (eg polygenic risk scores) in psychiatry led to a reduction in stigmatisation/abuse of patients with schizophrenia, depression etc? Nope, not in the slightest. There's no clear pathway from finding a genetic...

Syncopal episodes can cause weird movements and get misdiagnosed as nonepileptic seizures. The symptoms of POTS wax and wane and affect mostly young women. Fertile ground for FND demagoguery/abuse.

Psychiatric disorders also have genetic associations.

I thought this had failed replication. Now they’re jumping from mice to interventional human trials?

Chat bot I take it.

85% response rate is huge and it shows just how grateful people with ME/CFS are for good research.

I take it FCD is some new name for brain fog.

Another person with nothing new to offer inserting herself into a conversation that has been going on since before she was born. The issue here is that no matter how many caveats and disclaimers they put in academic papers about “association” and “risk factors”, the midwit clinicians who...

I just a priori assume that anything appearing in top psychology journals is fake. The more impactful the journal, the faker.

They made a huge mistake picking number of seizures as the primary outcome. That's a relatively objective outcome that's harder to bias through brainwashing than asking dopey self-report questions about mood etc.

Same with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273230083710433

Also, no plausible explanation for why one person ends up with nonepileptic convulsions, while another ends up with pain, yet another with twitching in foot, all due to magical effects of emotions/stress.