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I'm confused isn't it simply the same study? EDIT: ah ok, now I see it. The first one was published in Behaviour Research and Therapy and is called "Which behavioural and exercise interventions targeting fatigue show the most promise in multiple sclerosis? A systematic review with narrative...

Good news. It seems that the ME Action press conference was a success.

The fight of parents of autistic children against the myth of the refrigerator mother and psychogenic causation has quite a lot of similarities to the work ME/CFS advocates today. An interesting read is this paper by Bernard Rimland: “Psychogenesis Versus Biogenesis: The Issues and the...

Look forward to reading your response @Joan Crawford

So no need for people and judgement anymore?

It might look like your language is already selected but you have to press it again to go to the next screen. Maybe that is the issue.

Currently reading about the myth of the schizophrenic mother, and thought this was an interesting read: Mistreatment of Patients' Families by Psychiatrists WILLIAM S. APPLETON Abstract Many schools of psychiatric thought implicate the patient's family in aggravating and even generating his...

Effectiveness of training in guideline-oriented biopsychosocial management of low-back pain in occupational health services – a cluster randomized controlled trial by Ryynänen et al. Objective This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of brief training in the guideline-oriented...

The surveys says: Does that mean people outside the UK cannot participate?

The reasoning: "we can see what the trials cannot" doesn't make much sense to me. If doctors can see with their own eyes that the treatment works, it must be a pretty strong and obvious effect because there are so many confounding factors (age, sex, illness severity etc.) that make it...

This one by Peter Rowe required patients to have neurally mediated hypotension. It concluded: "In our study of adults with CFS, fludrocortisone as monotherapy for NMH was no more efficacious than placebo for amelioration of symptoms." Fludrocortisone acetate to treat neurally mediated...

Some of the treatments listed have been trialled in ME/CFS, often with negative results (caveat: lack of statistical power might also be an explanation for this). In our study of adults with CFS, fludrocortisone as monotherapy for NMH was no more efficacious than placebo for amelioration of...

Thanks for the summary @Kalliope

From the quotes, it's quite clear that the participants' boredom, lack of interest are the result of being severely fatigued/sick. They don't enjoy or look forward to doing things because they are too ill, or the activities they still can do are so limited that it leads to boredom etc. I don't...

Yes throughout the paper, the authors seem to favour I-CBT because that's the version they made and it's shorter and cheaper and at follow-up it didn't perform much worse than traditional CBT. The problem, however, is that the I-CBT intervention didn't significantly outperform the waiting list...

I think the key word here is "waiting list control group". Patients who received treatment I-CBT were compared to patients who also wanted I-CBT but were put on a waitlist for several weeks before they could try it. Suppose a manufacturer wants to test the satisfaction with a new laptop...

It seems like the text of a poster presentation was published? It reads: That would really surprise me. A holistic approach, taking social factors into account and a broad definition of recovery seem more like the things the researchers want the patients to say. I would guess that patients...

Thanks, just one clarification: the psychosomatic theories of diabetes were rather marginal and noninfluential as far as we can tell. We provide an overview of psychosomatic explanations and go look for them, because that's what our series of articles focuses on, but this doesn't always mean...