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Impressive response rate. Considering how few people in the UK have actual ME/CFS (as opposed to PACE/Crawley broadly-defined fatigue), a target of 25k was super aspirational IMO. Perhaps recruitment could be expanded to other countries.

Yup. The “treatment” often consists of a scribbled piece of paper with a weblink to Stone’s ghastly website. But it’s ok because the grifter doctor says he believes the patient!

Fooling no, but there has been a definite attempt by leading proponents of FND to increase mainstream legitimacy of this diagnostic category by appearing distance themselves from Freudian “conversion” narratives, by emphasising positive diagnostic signs (as opposed to being a diagnosis of...

Useful study. To me, these findings suggest that medical students aren’t fooled by the attempted rebranding of FND. Most of them are aware that it’s all just psychosomatic old wine in new bottles.

It’s impressive that this guy convinced a charity to give him 13 million pounds for this nonsense.

Sounds like a gruelling ordeal. I have mild-to-moderate ME these days and there’s no way I’d be able to handle all that.

I didn't even know they were using 7 Tesla scanners in humans now. When I was in college, I recall being told that this stuff was for rats only. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.2019182742 Damn.

A whole new crop of people entering the field and wasting government money on treatments that have already failed for the last 40 years.

Lol https://twitter.com/bhupeshprusty/status/1641571486161829890

The worst thing about it is how confident it sounds while it’s hallucinating made up things. I asked it to produce some fairly basic code in a niche area and it spat out nonexistent gibberish with extreme confidence.

Same here. When I had mild ME, I used to tolerate these cultural practices and would allow people I’m not close friends with to stay in the spare bedroom. Some of these visits were incredibly annoying, up to a week of forced activity. I’ve long stopped allowing anyone to come over which means no...

In mice!

This is truly despicable. I’m actually speechless.

It’s so strange that they published this. I hope he sues everyone involved in his “care” for malpractice.

Old (CBT) wine in new bottles.

TMS is a treatment for depression (and not a very good one).

Much hype, zero results so far.

My gait is abnormal. I’ve had other people spontaneously comment on it and even laugh at the way I walk. As I get progressively fatigued, my feet start dragging along the ground. I fall at least a couple of times a year.

Loss of consciousness. Dizziness, syncope and the sorts of symptoms we would call dysautonomia.

Fingertip sampling is more painful but it has other advantages. It can be repeated several times a day to track micro changes in a patient with chronic illness. It doesn’t require a trained phlebotomist, doesn’t require a trip to the doctor’s office (useful in places like the US where many ppl...