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"Long Covid is affecting 2 million patients in the UK, and GPs are struggling to treat them. But the volume of patients may prompt more research into treatment for medically unexplained symptoms. Emma Wilkinson reports While the world remained in lockdown in the early waves of the pandemic and...

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Full title: Neurogenesis is disrupted in human hippocampal progenitor cells upon exposure to serum samples from hospitalized COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), represents an enormous new threat to our healthcare system and particularly to...

Highlights Female predominates in childhood-onset psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). Early life trauma, specifically sexual abuse, was common in girls with PNES. Learning disability was a significant contributing factor in boys with PNES. Girls were more likely to experience suicidal...

Abstract Long-lasting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms beyond 12 weeks, the so-called ‘long COVID’ have been increasingly reported worldwide. Long COVID can be manifested in various forms, and there is an increasing demand for proper assessment and management. However, it is...

Post-COVID-Syndrome consists of several pathobiologically different entities, ranging from damage to specific organs to new onset autoimmune diseases. This article focuses on post-COVID courses with the leading symptoms of fatigue and exercise intolerance. This category is also known from other...

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My personal experience, which is four or five procedures with sedation in the last five years, is that as far as I can tell I had no adverse effects.

We've seen the 'everybody else is talking about it so where's the harm' type of argument before and for people who are in a position of potential influence it should be no defence at all, they should be exhibiting a reasonable amount of self restraint for the good of the patient population that...

"Despite the higher prevalence rate in women than in men of many neurological disorders (e.g. multiple sclerosis, migraine, Alzheimer’s disease), gender stereotypes can have a negative impact, leading to under-diagnosis, misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. Furthermore, while women experience...

This was published on the NIH's Director's blog. "Understanding Long-Term COVID-19 Symptoms and Enhancing Recovery We are in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and across the world, most restrictions have lifted, and society is trying to get back to “normal.” But for many...

And in doing so endorses the use of this as a treatment. To me this is seriously problematic on an ethical level and something that we have seen before with various people promoting, or seeming to promote, various 'treatments' before there is good evidence that they are safe and actually work.

The impetus for many governments globally to treat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as an endemic warrant more research into the prevention, and management of long COVID syndrome (LCS). Whilst the data on LCS remains scarce, reports suggest a large proportion of recovered individuals will...

Full title: Cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral stress-related symptoms and coping strategies among university students during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic Background: Stress is manifested by different physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral stress-related symptoms, and...

"Almost seven years ago—in October, 2015–Virology Blog published my 15,000-word investigation of the arguably fraudulent PACE trial. (Thanks, Professor Racaniello!). At the time, no one but patients and a few clinicians cared about ME/CFS—at that point mostly called chronic fatigue syndrome...

"Given the heterogeneity of long Covid and the poor knowledge on its pathogenesis, it is not surprising that its treatment is merely symptomatic. Pain medications including opioids, antidepressant drugs and anxiolytic drugs are frequently used (10), often without adequate surveillance. Although...

Introduction As a syndrome which can take multiple forms and mimic different diseases, long Covid can be considered as a novel “Great Imitator,” a nickname attributed to syphilis more than a century ago (1). Indeed, there is a body of evidence that infection with SARS-CoV-2 can result in...

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a clinical entity of chronic fatigue, has been associated with a decrease in regional gray matter volume (rGMV). In this study targeting a large number of healthy middle-aged individuals without CFS, the relationship between fatigue perception and rGMV was...

Full title: Multimodal MRI of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A cross-sectional neuroimaging study toward its neuropathophysiology and diagnosis Introduction: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), is a debilitating illness affecting up to 24 million...