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so all these other disorders are categorized and described so differently that they do not come up with any of the search terms he used, but he himself has dug them out of the literature and is pretty sure they are the same as whatever FND is because he's really read a lot about it out of...

wow, I hadn't read up on this before. Does anyone have a copy of the original article? Now that it's taken down, I"d like to read it.

CODES. I wrote several posts about it. The control group had a greater reduction of seizures than the intervention group. But they still claimed it was effective because of a few minor generic secondary outcomes

They dropped actigraphy but still had four objective outcomes. And I don't think the whole trial would have been pointless had they accepted their poor results and not changed their outcomes. They would have had null results and the field could have moved on.

Yes, and Knoop is already doing this with his CBT to prevent severe fatigue in long Covid

i hadn't noticed this paper until now. The whole thing is ridiculous.

I agree that sending abusive messages can cause problems, and if people do that they should be asked not to or blocked or whatever, but in reality it is social media open to all, and that is simply going to happen no matter how much anyone pleads or asks people to refrain. That's not condoning...

Good find! Given that recent reporting, perhaps Garner should get the benefit of the doubt over this specific misstatement. I assume he had this recent claim in mind and conflated "Spanish flu" and "Russian flu" when speaking. I doubt very much he believes the Spanish flu was actually...

who are you referring to at Columbia?

With general news articles like this, I try to focus on what I think are the main takeaways readers will get and whether they're ok. In this case, they are: 1) Exercise can be a big problem for long covid patients, and 2) There's an actual thing called PEM with some scientific data to back it...

I think I'll write to Flottorp about her characterization of me and point out the pedigrees of the people who signed that letter.

yes, I found that statement particularly ironic.

Journals have different processes and names for different categories. This is clearly not an editorial written in the name of the journal. I don't know Lancet's procedure on these. just because a piece might be invited does not mean it is automatically not peer-reviewed, so best not to make...

I'm confused what this is in reference to? participant in what trial?

I read this first as the mother having been bitten when the mother was 15, but when I re-read it I was convinced that the patient herself was bitten when the patient was 15. It's not clear. But we know two things: Someone was bitten, and someone was 15.

Brian Hughes and I have heard from Occupational Medicine that it will be publishing our letter, along with a response from the authors, within a few weeks. We haven't seen the Chalder response yet. The journal will not retract the study. It also sounds, remarkably, that the journal will not...

my cousins used to sing a song about me that they called "the worry song" when I was 7 or 8. We all still remember it.

can you translate for Americans?

questionnaires like that are not designed for people with actual limiting disabilities. They are inappropriate here.

yes, but really they can't rule anything in or out with this study, given that it is a single cohort with no comparison group.