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Measure of "interoceptive accuracy" developed by the same group as the paper above: Multidimensional Interoception and Autistic Traits Across life Stages: Evidence From a Novel Eye-tracking Task "Abundant studies have suggested that neurotypical individuals have an implicit awareness of...

It's the faculty for remembering when you've forgotten - rather than there being just an empty space that can't be explained. In many memory loss events where there is gross physical evidence of brain impact there is no clear before and after memory, whereas memory for forgetting allows...

Interoception models are fairly simple, just awareness of basic functions, breathing and heart rate are the usual targets: Research on Interoceptive Awareness Training "Interoceptive awareness is the awareness of inner body sensations, involving the sensory process of receiving, accessing, and...

Overtesting is a recognised problem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685650/ In kids exposed to an overtesting culture there's a potential for childhood itself to get medicalised, we shouldn't get seduced into the idea that testing means only objective body chemistry assays -...

Never underestimate the unseen hurdles posed by publicly accountable bureaucracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/nihpreprints/

Point 4 is problematic - at least in the way it is worded. Health is a devolved function and the current relationship between central Government and the devolved Parliaments/Assembly is not one that readily supports "the UK Government establish(ing) and lead(ing) a national strategy. At a time...

Adding this here because both topical and pertinent: Life expectancy in China is now the same as in the US The US has had a hard pandemic. The country has the highest reported death toll of any country in the world, crossing the one million mark on 4 May. That’s equivalent to wiping out the...

Article: Financial Times Coronavirus pandemic far deadlier than official count, WHO estimate suggests. "The number of people who died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic by the end of last year may be nearly three times higher than previously thought, according to estimates by the World...

Choice is between drowsy and non drowsy - the former can be useful for sleep problems. Fexofenadine seems to be the NHS standby non drowsy (well non drowsy ish, I have to take it at night otherwise messes up the day): https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/fexofenadine/ note the issue with fruit juices !

I found this study helpful in understanding what seems to be the territory being explored by the Gottschalk paper: Altered serum levels of autophagy proteins Beclin-1 and mTOR in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration although I'm unsure how it relates directly to...

"Conclusion: PE must be prioritized from study conception, explicitly programmed into study conduct and valued by integrating patient partner input." Objective achievement agenda Item 1. - Learning to write in jargon free common language.

"Figure 1. The varying recognition of organs and senses as interoceptive. The classification of bodily organs and senses as interoceptive varies according to different definitions, with varying degrees of broad acceptance and controversy within the field. Green indicates organs and senses...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Interoceptive pathways to understand and treat mental health conditions, 2022, Camilla L. Nord, Sarah N. Garfinkel Highlights Patients with neuropsychiatric disorders associated with altered emotional or physical experiences show disruptions in interoception...

My impression (i.e I haven't been counting !) is that there's a fairly consistent picture around the 'long covid' post hospitalisation cohorts that sets them apart from any common picture of the ME/CFS patient population - notably gender and age; from above: "279 (35·6%) of these 807 patients...

From the same department: https://www.s4me.info/threads/detection-of-male-hypogonadism-in-patients-with-post-covid-19-condition-2022-yamamoto-et-al.25380/

Most Psychoanalysts practice privately, there are (maybe ?) some countries where psychoanalysis is still part of medical school education but mostly it has been sidelined and is something that is only pursued post medical school. There are still Freudians trying to influence modern psychiatry...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medscape Medscape launched May 22, 1995 by SCP Communications, Inc.[2] under the direction of its CEO Peter Frishauf.[3] In 1999, George D. Lundberg became the editor-in-chief of Medscape. For seventeen years before joining Medscape he had served as Editor of the...

Grim that Yahoo is simply churning unedited and unquestioned, publisher's marketing as 'News'.

This journal was originally created by Sigmund Freud in 1920 - that it's still going 102 years later and still publishing anti scientific patient blaming is I suppose some kind of testament to the resilience of Freudianism in the face science, logic and er ... common humanity ?

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational violence and immunological deficits, a psychosomatic hypothesis, 2022, Papazian Abstract This essay relies on the somatising identification mechanism, conceived to account for the delayed effects of projective identifications on the...