That was my reaction too, as an autistic person and the parent of an autistic child.
(Incidentally I first read the study title as "Inventing Associations Between Central Sensitivity Syndromes and the Autism Spectrum", which sounds...
Something that is frequently talked about by autistic people is 'sensory seeking', ie being undersensitive to stimuli (compared to other people),...
Couple of things from a quick skim of the PDF: That suggests their participants were on the milder end of LC, because those with more severe...
In the rubber hand illusion, as in other illusions, the illusory sensation is almost immediately extinguished as the brain corrects its momentary...
Higher doses have some nasty side effects, which would be problematic both in terms of wanting to avoid harming trial participants and also...
GPs and other HCPs often seem to have enough trouble understanding the facts of what life is like for pwLC and ME, without becoming confused with...
and conversely, if you can grit your teeth and hide the fact you're in pain, that obviously means the pain isn't that bad. There's no "correct"...
Bookmarking this answer for the next time I try and talk to my GP about why my ferritin is low but other rbc results are OK!
There have been occasions when I've collapsed in those scenarios but it's been more due to dizziness and a sort of momentary loss of information...
I hadn't heard of Patricia Murray before. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/patricia-murray Interested to see that she began her career as a...
Saw this in a Mastodon thread today about the World Conference on Research Integrity. https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/114301415246307147...
Researchers missed a trick not including healthy controls. If caffeine also improves the walk distance, perceived fatigue and so on of control...
Did they check whether all the confirmed ME/CFS diagnosed patients passed this test?
OK! Yes, probably safest.
I'll try and do this later.
And followed up the subjects for a year, so we could see how many *actually* recovered enough to resume their old lives, and how many ran on fumes...
It's a shame things sometimes get sensationalised to make an eye-catching title. Plenty of people don't find tracking a gift or a curse, just...
Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on blood vessels and blood pressure – LOCHINVAR Where did they get the H?
I can say the first three or four syllables of 'Deteriorative' but my chances of getting anyone else to understand the whole word would be slim!...
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