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  1. Andy

    Longitudinal outcome of Functional Neurological Disorder in Children and Adolescents in a Tertiary Care centre from Northern India 2022 Rohatgi et al

    Abstract FND is common in Indian children and adolescents. Outcome related factors are not well known. With objective to study short-term outcome of FND, prospective, longitudinal, nine months follow-up study of 6–16 years was planned. Socioeconomic, clinical variables, I.Q. and personality...
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    COVID-19 Demonstrates That Inflammation Is a Hyperviscous State 2022 Sloop et al

    Abstract Many of the complications of severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) are caused by blood hyperviscosity driven by marked hyperfibrinogenemia. This results in a distinctive hyperviscosity syndrome which affects areas of high and low shear. A change in blood viscosity causes a...
  3. Andy

    Data-Driven Path Analytic Modeling to Understand Underlying Mechanisms in ... Long-Term Post-COVID Pain: 2022 Fernández-de-las-Peñas et al

    Full title: Data-Driven Path Analytic Modeling to Understand Underlying Mechanisms in COVID-19 Survivors Suffering from Long-Term Post-COVID Pain: A Spanish Cohort Study Abstract Pain can be present in up to 50% of people with post-COVID-19 condition. Understanding the complexity of post-COVID...
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    What is brain fog?, 2022, Smyth et al (incl. Alan Carson, Jon Stone)

    With that lot involved I bet they will claim that it is 'functional', no matter what they actually find.
  5. Andy

    Identification of biopsychological trait markers in functional neurological disorders 2022 Weber, Aybek et al

    Abstract Stress is a well-known risk factor to develop a functional neurological disorder, a frequent neuropsychiatric medical condition in which patients experience a variety of disabling neurological symptoms. Only little is known about biological stress regulation, and how it interacts with...
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    Vital Measurements of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients as a Predictor of [LC]: An EHR-based Cohort Study from the RECOVER Program in N3C 2022 Jiang

    Abstract It is shown that various symptoms could remain in the stage of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), otherwise known as Long COVID. A number of COVID patients suffer from heterogeneous symptoms, which severely impact recovery from the pandemic. While scientists are trying...
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    Preprint: Research Letter: Association between long COVID symptoms and employment status 2022 Perlis et al

    Abstract Background: Symptoms of Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) infection persist beyond 2 months in a subset of individuals, a phenomenon referred to as long COVID, but little is known about its functional correlates and in particular the relevance of neurocognitive symptoms. Method: We analyzed...
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    Complications Post-COVID-19 and Risk Factors among Patients after Six Months of a SARS-CoV-2 Infection 2022 Domènech-Montoliu et al

    Abstract In October 2020, we conducted a population-based prospective cohort study to determine post-COVID-19 complications, recovery, return to usual health, and associated risk factors in 536 cases of COVID-19 outbreak in Borriana (Spain) by administering an epidemiological questionnaire via...
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    Psychiatrist and trainee moral injury during the organisational long COVID of Australian acute psychiatric inpatient services 2022 Looi et al

    [As best I can tell from the abstract, they are not using "long COVID" in the sense of the syndrome.] Abstract Objective This paper provides a commentary on the risk of moral injury amongst psychiatrists and trainees working in the acute psychiatric hospital sector, during the third winter of...
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    Vocal biomarker predicts fatigue in people with COVID-19: results from the prospective Predi-COVID cohort study 2022 Elbéji et al

    Abstract Objective To develop a vocal biomarker for fatigue monitoring in people with COVID-19. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Predi-COVID data between May 2020 and May 2021. Participants A total of 1772 voice recordings were used to train an AI-based algorithm to predict...
  11. Andy

    Long Covid stigma: estimating burden and validating scale in a UK-based sample, 2022, Pantelic et al

    Now published. Abstract Background Stigma can be experienced as perceived or actual disqualification from social and institutional acceptance on the basis of one or more physical, behavioural or other attributes deemed to be undesirable. Long Covid is a predominantly multisystem condition that...
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    Trends in psychiatric diagnoses by COVID-19 infection & hospitalization among patients with & without recent clinical psychiatric diagnoses 2022 Xiao

    Full title: Trends in psychiatric diagnoses by COVID-19 infection and hospitalization among patients with and without recent clinical psychiatric diagnoses in New York city from March 2020 to August 2021 Abstract Determining emerging trends of clinical psychiatric diagnoses among patients...
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    ** Spit kits will not be despatched in December ** In order to avoid spit kits being caught up with the Xmas post we will be pausing dispatch of them in December. You will still be able to complete the questionnaire online at any time, it just means that we won't send out any kits to those...
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    Absolutely, there is no need to rush it. Out of interest, roughly how long ago did you receive the kit?
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    Closed UK: DecodeME updates, was recruitment thread.

    We received notification this week from the processing centre of receipt of over 4,000 kits that they hadn't previously booked in. We, obviously, aren't happy that this backlog had built up and appreciate everyone's patience while we tried to sort it out, hopefully it won't happen again.
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    Patient-led Research Collaborative and Fund for Long COVID

    "A pre- and postoperative study of patients with ME/CFS operated for foraminal stenosis – Prof. Per Sjogren, Dr. Bo Bertilson, Dr. Helena Huhmar, Dr. Lauri Soinne, Dr. Olli Polo, Dr. Jonas Bergquist, and Dr. Bjorn Bragée – Bragee ME Clinic, Stockholm In a 2020 study based on MRI findings, Dr...
  17. Andy

    BBC News: Energy bills: Patients prescribed heating as part of health trial

    Cognitive Heating Therapy? Or LP cultists start claiming that we can learn how to not "du" hypothermia by going on one of their courses.
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    BBC News: Energy bills: Patients prescribed heating as part of health trial

    "Doctors are prescribing heating to patients with conditions that get worse in the cold as part of a health trial. The Warm Home Prescription pilot paid to heat the homes of 28 low-income patients to avoid the cost of hospital care if they became more ill. The trial achieved such good results...
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    Transdiagnostic therapy for persistent physical symptoms: A mediation analysis of the PRINCE secondary trial 2022 Chalder et al

    Spurious Claims For The Impact of Transdiagnostic CBT on Persistent Physical Symptoms "In a just published study James et al (2022) extol the virtues of their transdiagnostic CBT therapy (plus standard medical care) for Persistent Physical Symptoms. s. In an earlier study these authors found...
  20. Andy

    Fibromyalgia and nonfibromyalgia chronic pain: Differences in psychological characteristics and treatment outcomes, 2022, Salaberria et al

    Abstract The aim of this study was to explore differential psychological profiles among patients with chronic pain with and without fibromyalgia, and to determine the results of the cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for pain. Thirty patients with chronic pain and 60 patients with fibromyalgia...
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