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Indeed. When I did a module on neuropsychology in my degree - with a focus on strokes and accidents in many lectures - I remember the main message I took away was that I didn't realised the age of around 7yrs was when something might be most likely to happen (apparently as there is a huge amount...

There may not have been in-house funding, but (I'd guess particularly where said research would be taking place at the institution) it may be that the general institutional support system for making said applications is providing help for them to get said funding. Having said that it is quite...

Not a big expert on this but I do know that it would be an unusual situation for any academic to be seen as above the usual bars/demands of producing good research and teaching/other committments. I suspect that in many institutions then good research alone can be enough. HOW that research is...

I was thinking one of the 'least dramatic' to look into was the sinus thing. However, I personally wouldn't touch decongestants (for me they dry things out and cause rebound effect later, but I also have other meds etc). I have bad rhinosinusitis and go with the following, in order, to...

"MEG scans have been used to help diagnose TBI in veterans by the US government for more than 10 years. Yet in Britain, an MoD spokesman told the Observer they are seen merely as a “promising technique” that needs further research. He added: “The health and wellbeing of our armed forces is...

trust them to go for the word 'beliefs'. You sort of want to peel out that Mrs Merton classic line of "so what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?" to say back to them. There is a reason that one has to declare financial etc conflicts of interest. They tend to influence what...

Is there a case study anywhere of what was involved and how this was done? Just thinking if this is a way forward whether we have somewhere that these things are collected for learning and building on purposes.

Brilliant. And particularly glad for seeing what is in the last paragraph said. If only this, and indeed the penultimate line, would act as a wake-up call/look in the mirror to get a few to think about whether that which might become habit is how it is supposed to be.

trust them to go for the word 'beliefs'. You sort of want to peel out that Mrs Merton classic line of "so what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?" to say back to them. There is a reason that one has to declare financial etc conflicts of interest. They tend to influence what...

and the workwell research demonstrating PEM. with all it's non-subjective issues. They are using sophism again to try and make it look like PEM is the subjective variable using deflection when really it is what it is replacing that is subjective.

and the review had to be done because the CDC had thrown out CBT and GET, based on their assessment of the research in 2017. Based on the Academy of Medicine (previously Institute of Medicine) being commissioned to look into the state of research/treatment of patients, which reported in 2015...

Indeed if you can (which sadly not all who read what BPS write can) step back and think - hmmm so PEM/PESE is the cardinal symptom for ME/CFS. They've found some cancer survivors have developed PEM/PESE. How does this make their research where due to their using Oxford/Fukada their...

I think you are on the right track talking PEM/needing to understand the 'phase/stage' the body is in before they interpret anything. My next bit is I'm afraid a bit of a ramble focused on mainly the thinking out loud on the overbreathing, what it is and how it could be miscontrued but how my...

indeed - it definitely needs objective measures, and it definitely needs much longer longitudinal measures - with drop-out rates from the start not being used as a 'control'. My personal gut feelings from experience on where this one might head then anyone who 'got conned' and has ME will not...

It's also worth noting (as relates back to Knoop's current proposed research) that Fukada criteria were used for CFS and they seemed to be new referrals betwen 2008-10 to a centre. They used the following definitions for 'low active' and 'high active': "Two groups of patients are discerned...

I can't believe how many people in this world act like this. It's dumb. It's apalling. And leads to quite dangerous things happening to ill people at laymen's hands. But they are allowed to get away with it and noone pulls them up or forces them to look at the consequences of their behaviour...

And that most important tactic of all - that if you make the monitored requirement hard enough then anyone who actually has ME drops out. I call it the Krypton Factor filter. The last thing you want is someone getting ill in your timeframe of measurement affecting your figures and having to...

You are probably much more on the money that I am. My mind initially went to even more cynical assumptions. Goodness knows why they need a less and more active group if they aren't going to measure their level of activity at any point other than the start. I wonder if he's spotted something...

Copied from ReCOVer: A RCT testing the efficacy of CBT for preventing chronic post-infectious fatigue among patients diagnosed with COVID-19. You are probably much more on the money that I am. My mind initially went to even more cynical assumptions. Goodness knows why they need a less and...

Is the issue awareness of it or them not wanting to do it even if they know about it?