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What's this magical "free will" you think humans might have? Free will is a concept that I always have thought has never been placed on a solid conceptual footing in philosophy, psychology, and science in general. One of the main problems I think in making progress in understanding free will...

I suppose to split hairs, the so-called sickness behaviors such as fatigue, depression, etc are not directly behaviors as such; they are actually states of mind, but states of mind which then give rise to certain behaviors, or which modify behaviors. So for example, obviously when you feel...

I think you may be misunderstanding what is meant by sickness behavior. The theory of sickness behavior posits that an infectious illness will trigger off certain behaviors, and what we perceive as symptoms (eg fatigue) are actually behavioral responses that, like automatic reflexes, are...

The important question about sickness behavior is not whether it exists or not (there is no doubt that it does occur — just ask and observe anyone with the flu). The important question is whether sickness behavior occurs in ME/CFS, and thus might explain some of the symptoms of ME/CFS. Sickness...

Anyone know how many patients were in the phase III trial? In Fluge and Mella's doubled-blinded phase II trial (30 patients, 67% response rate) and their open label phase II trial (29 patients, 64% response rate), as well as the anecdotal report from Kolibri Medical clinic in Norway (which...