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I just had a look. The article consists of a description of a plan for treating people diagnosed with motor FND as part of a two-week in-patient rehabilitation programme. Its hard to make much of it because it doesn't go into detail about what treatments were actually offered and whether they...

I had a peek. He says he has an "interest in schizoid PD", which ironically would seem to be to be one of the most theoretically shaky constructs in the whole psychological pantheon. You should read the things he says about people he believes to have that disorder (aka his client base)! Makes...

Like @Jonathan Edwards, I winced at the sheer length of this list. It seems to me to undermine the case this person is trying to make rather than support it. ADHD, autism and dyslexia is a triad that co-occurs with reasonable frequency because all three are probably connected in some way (but...

Smells a bit off to me, this. Pupillometry is used a lot in cognitive psychology because pupils are markers of all sorts of things. People's pupils will repond to changes in the nature of some repeating stimulus, even if its auditory (e.g, beep, beep, beep, boop, beep), they'll respond to...

I've been thinking about this in the context of my own work life. It seems to me that "burnout" is used to mean something really different from physical exhaustion. So you might have a physically demanding job, and you're handling it okay until you catch some mild infection - or maybe you have a...

My experience of living in the US - some decades ago) really brought this home to me. I was struck by the incredibly strong pressure people felt to be a success, the way a person's value was assessed in terms of how far up the ladder they had climbed. Not everyone - some groups rejected that...

Yes, I see your point. I'm not in constant fatigue either, only during what I call "flares" (sometimes they follow overexertion, sometimes they happen for no apparent reason at all). So yes, you're right, it couldn't be the platelets without some very heavy theory-massaging.

All the points made above are well taken. But just the same, the ideas piqued my interest. I have consistently high platelet counts, which I was told (and have since read) are a marker of ongoing inflammation. I am tested for SAA every couple of years, and sometimes it is just above the safe...

Na, lived experience is good, as long as its "correct". e.g. Paul Garner, Recovery Norge. All lived experiences are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Do they realise what they are admitting? "We literally don't know what the *%$# is wrong with about a third of the patients that come to us. Haven't got a damned clue. We just can't work it out, so we end up having to give them a placebo diagnosis". A placebo diagnosis, I just made it up but I...

Ha, we were just talking on another thread about how easy it is to find these sorts of retrospective associations, by capitalising on retrospective reporting biases, third variable effects or through just plain overfishing. @hibiscuswahine is going for third variable effects. Could be. I'm...

I'm glad you say verifiable history, @hibiscuswahine. My guess is that if there really is such a thing as factitious disorder, then people with it would almost certainly be inclined to exaggerate their childhood hardships! I worry about some of the claims that are made about the causal role of...

Hi @hibiscuswahine! Just saw you're a kiwi (sounds dumb of me not to realise, but the hibiscus part in your name made me think of much warmer parts of the Pacific...). I don't know a lot about neuropsychological testing in MECFS, have been meaning to review the literature - I think you just...

Welcome to the forum @hibiscuswahine! (I know you're not exactly new, but this is our first meeting!). Yes, in part. A working memory task will engage the ACC (the dorsal ACC, or midcingulate cortex). But ironically, dysfunction within this region does not always lead to a marked performance...

Oh no... from a link on that page.... https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-collaborates-on-worlds-largest-study-on-long-covid-in-children-and-young-people

I had a random browse through some of the names in the rogues gallery. Even that isn't honest. There are loads of people on this list who have had nothing to do with CFS or any kind of BPS bullshit (for example, some do research on racial inequalities in healthcare and other actually worthwhile...

Bummer, its all in Russian!

Like @Mithriel, its feels like a broken record to comment (but thanks for posting @Andy, its good to know about this work). Er, cause/effect?? Are you wanting to make clams about faking/exaggerating or about psychosomatic factors? If the latter, a good first move would be to exclude people...

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:!!!! (bolding mine) If that's how they see it, why the hell spend this sort of time and effort defending the very idea of this stupid tea party? Why can't they just grow up and get a real job?

Interesting find, @MSEsperanza. Re the Stoll paper: I was reading along, thinking it was a pretty good way of assessing cognitive fatigability. Then hope turned to disappointment when I got to the bit where they interpret a null result (lack of a significant correlation) as positive evidence...