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No mention of PEM, PESE or harm in the paper, so I have no trust in the 'great results'.

Abstract The emergence of COVID-19 has led to serious public health problems. Now that the acute phase of the pandemic has passed, new challenges have arisen in relation to this disease. The post-COVID-19 conditions are a priority for intervention, as months after the onset of the disease, they...

While the UK Biobank cohort is not typical of the general population, I think it would be fair to say that the cohort of this study is even less typical. From the Nurses' Health Study website, https://nurseshealthstudy.org/about-nhs/history "Establishing the cohort The target population for...

Fukuda criteria, with no requirement of PEM.

Background: A growing body of evidence showed that gut microbiota dysbiosis might be associated with the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Microbiota-targeted interventions could play a protective role in PD by regulating the gut microbiota-gut-brain axis. Sodium butyrate (NaB) could...

Purpose: We report our single-center experience on the neurological manifestations of long COVID. Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective observational study. All consecutive patients referred to the neurological long COVID outpatient clinic of our institute from January 21 2021 to...

From Dave's article linked above. "Unfortunately, this sort of data-mashing contributes to the ongoing confusion among clinicians, patients and the public over FND, the larger domain of what are being called “functional” disorders, and the critical differences between the two. To mitigate this...

Trial By Error: Once More Regarding Inflated FND Rates–and a Reprise of a Letter to a Yale Neurologist "Last July, I sent a letter to Benjamin Tolchin, a neurologist at Yale, about the statement, in a 2021 paper for which he was the lead author, regarding prevalence rates for functional...

Abstract Long COVID (LC), a type of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), occurs after at least 10% of SARS-CoV-2 infections, yet its etiology remains poorly understood. Here, we used multiple omics assays (CyTOF, RNAseq, Olink) and serology to deeply characterize both global and...

Perhaps their model doesn't accurately model real life consequences?

I'm sorry but I don't understand your post. Yes, that's what happened. Why is the question mark in brackets? Do you mean the question mark to apply or not? Right, so are you now agreeing that the time scale I described is a reasonable explanation or do you still feel that there was a "strange...

Yep. Why is it a strange time lag? Preprint was from Oct 2021. Publication history of this paper. "Published: February 8, 2023 Accepted: December 30, 2022 Received in revised form: September 14, 2022 Received: April 27, 2022" So there was 6 months between posting their preprint, presumably...

"Did you know that tomorrow is the International Day Of #WomenInScience? We’re proud to have many strong women on the DecodeME team. Here are just a few of them (who we could convince to share photos!) working hard on DecodeME behind the scenes! https://decodeme.org.uk" [Click image to expand]...

Background: Autoimmune encephalitis was very rare prior to the current pandemic. A sharp rise in cases has been observed from March to August of 2022 in Los Angeles. Such an increase, especially with certain types of antibodies, may point toward the possibility of post-infectious autoimmune...

Full title: Presence of depression and anxiety with distinct patterns of pharmacological treatments before the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome: a population-based study in Taiwan Abstract Objective An increased prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities (including depression and anxiety...

Gut bacteria imbalance ‘linked to chronic fatigue syndrome’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/patients-scientists-england-wales-university-of-edinburgh-b2278354.html

Katharine Seton has been supported in her work by Invest in ME and Solve ME. I don't recognise the Spanish researchers. But most notably there are no quotes from the usual UK-based BPS supporters (although some of the Spanish 'experts' do seem that way inclined).

Thanks. I think he is on the list of potential contacts already, if not I'll ask that he is added.

Abstract The brain is an energy hog, consuming available energy supplies at a rate out of all proportion to its relatively small size. This outsized demand, largely reflecting the unique computational activity of the brain, is met by an ensemble of neurovascular coupling mechanisms that link...

Abstract Background: Patients with persistent physical symptoms presenting in primary care are often affected by multiple symptoms and reduced functioning. The medical and societal costs of these patients are high, and there is a need for new interventions tailored to both the patients and...