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Isn't a 3 Tesla magnet too low resolution, though? IIRC anomalies in pwME have usually been seen only at 7T when using MRI?

This framing of a "parallel pandemic" has been growing a bit lately and it's so damn weird. Like labeling the flooding after a storm as a separate event from the storm itself. This only serves to create a false separation between the consequences of maximizing the spread of COVID.

This bit is especially delusional and frankly devious: Exactly as "personalized" as a fortune cookie or a psychic séance. Without the lies none of this would work but still: the damn lying all the time, so many lies, damned lies and statistics.

Have given up a looooooong time ago. Just the same mindless crap over and over again. In what world do these people think "education" on nonsense is treatment? And the continuing obsession with magical "sleep hygiene" again? Can't even say "at least you tried". This is phoning in phoning it in...

Ugh. Disappointing that this is still mostly unaddressed and investigated superficially. Lots of people reported some weird insomnia that lasted for days, just complete inability to fall asleep or feel somnolent at all, like the sleep switch turned off. I had a similar episode that in hindsight...

Sure, not mine :) I'm not sure where I got it from.

That can't be right. You can't be a healthy control and have POTS. Lots of people with dysautonomia don't even meet the criteria for increased heart rate because it falls short of the threshold. Odd.

So that's the same Busse we've been discussing in other threads? A chiropractor, funded by our equivalent of the NIH? Who, somehow, despite having no relevant expertise, thinks he can define core outcomes for research in ME? Medicine has truly lost the plot. We are at the thoughts and prayers...

I used to get them regularly, maybe every 3 months or so, and it's been a while so it's possible they stopped it.

I'll predict the conclusion right here: negative findings on all objective outcomes, a trend towards the positive on secondary subjective outcomes (squinting may be necessary), more research will be needed to figure out responders from non-responders, it's promising and all that. Oh, and of...

The response to how employment data are unreliable because they are economic data points, rather than medical, is especially malicious, as they are implying that those people could work if they wanted to, that the people who do not get back to work but "improve" based on their subjective...

I have seen a few people over the years who clearly are not coping well and show excessive worry. As a ratio of all pwME I would say it's less than 5%, to some degree, and less than 1% at a level where even I would recommend some counseling, although always with someone specialized in chronic...

It can avoid costly investigations. As far as I can tell, the only goal of BPS medicine is to reduce costs. Everything else is superfluous. So no benefit to patients, in fact it makes it worse, but it's cheaper and easier for healthcare services, as long as they don't mind neglecting their...

Well, no. Obviously. What a weird thing to say. The widespread belief that any kind of psychological anything MUST have some sort of benefit is just plain bizarre. Never privilege a lie. Mental healthcare is decades away from having a viable product, is frankly basically at the level where...

Great article. The absurdity of subjective and objective outcomes giving different data and successfully making it about how it's the objective outcomes that are wrong is probably the strongest argument to repair the disaster of what EBM has become. Of course the entire psychosomatic ideology...

Honestly it's hard to miss the pattern that people who work explicitly in research methodology and trials, basically in EBM, seem to be the worst when it comes to research quality. There's this guy, then of course Paul Garner, whose "expertise" is clinical knowledge (imagine that) and Wessely...

Heh, wouldn't even surprise me. Recently there was a study showing that people who live longer have fewer gait/balance issues, and of course the media buzz, which the researchers would probably not object to, was that people should work on their balance to live longer. Ironically, if people did...

Wow. The future of evidence-based medicine is, well, this is it. Enjoy the house you built.

Oh, wow, they found an association between Humpty and Dumpty stop the damn presses. This reminds of Vanilla Ice explaining how the intro to Ice, ice Baby is different than Under pressure by Queen.

Not being treated by specialists does not mean they are being treated by generalists. There are no treatments, I am baffled as to how this could be treated anywhere, but the logic here is just wrong. Seeing someone is not treating someone, the cult of the white lab coat is beyond silly at this...