I thought the discussion and conclusion were thoughtfully written, and think they are worth reading. I hope this team will be funded to do...
Looking carefully at cells with an electron microscope seems like a good thing to do. There were a lot of preparatory steps, and with such a...
B12 levels were a good thing to look at in a big fibromyalgia population, but the results aren't very impressive. The symptoms of fatigue, memory...
IACFS/ME 2022 Virtual Medical and Scientific Conference July 27 - 30, 2022 I think the conference was a useful contribution to the ME/CFS...
I think that the data on symptoms collected on the first visit were not all that was used to diagnose someone with ME/CFS. It seems as though...
@SNT Gatchaman, or anyone Associated Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Society Incorporated Is that ANZMES or another organisation??
Forty-two patients were assessed for eligibility and 32 were randomized. 3 were lost to follow-up, all in the support therapy arm, leaving 17 in...
This quote from the first paper is interesting. My first observation is that treatment is routinely being provided to young people with PNES in...
Thanks to a member for access to the paper. The authors do not make clear how long the FND symptoms lasted, which surely is of substantial...
Oh dear. I found this study: it used the Taiwanese health insurance research database, looking at the chances of patients developing epilepsy in...
'Psychiatric' as in 'psychogenic' as opposed to 'affecting brain function'?
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It could be, the abstract is unhelpfully vague. Does anyone have access to the paper?
The FND labelling is obscene. It looks as though a prior psychiatric diagnosis in a patient provides surgeons/anaesthetists with a 'get out of...
[ATTACH] This figure, which is supposed to be the average of all of the data for the two groups, is a bit odd. Table 1 tells us that the heart...
That the authors could draw their conclusion so confidently on the basis of that Figure B is amazing. That's a really substantial overlap. A...
Seems pretty significant in terms of recognising there is a problem. From the memorandum: It's a shame the first two symptoms of Long Covid are...
I wonder if this paper aims to bolster the use of patient reported measures as primary outcomes, which would of course make trials of CBT or GET...
I'm skeptical about this. Cortisol changes could be a result of a change in lifestyle that happens when you are sick. The people in this sample...
Moved posts That's a brilliant presentation @SNT Gatchaman, so many quotable bits. Sadly, it still desperately needs to be heard.
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