By the way, I've met some diagnosed autistic adults through an association, and here's what I found: It seems easier to connect with them, but...
https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-022-00486-6 Background Autistic adults, particularly women, are more likely to...
Maybe the same underlying molecular abnomality tends to manifest differently depending on the gender (and age of onset) and some additional factors.
mTOR overactivity has been proposed to be relevant to both autism and ME/CFS. Loss of mTOR‐dependent autophagy causes autistic‐like synaptic...
The simultaneous experience of exhaustion and difficulty entering into a restful relaxed state. I suspect the wired state is sympathetic arousal...
By the way, my impression is that in some countries, like Italy, in comparison to the UK, it is more difficult to get a diagnosis of ME/CFS,...
Is this the US study? Estimating Prevalence, Demographics, and Costs of ME/CFS Using Large Scale Medical Claims Data and Machine Learning I'm...
FUNCAP isn't useless, it's just inadequate. A person is disabled if they can't perform a normal amount of ordinary activities of daily life for...
I'm sorry to disagree, I think FUNCAP is inadequate. While it does acknowledge the possibility that one type of activity can lead to a reduction...
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing tests the capacity to do high-intensity activity for about 10 minutes. A neurological examination tests whether...
Showing an association between certain emotional states and these disorders and treatment responses does not mean the emotional state is driving...
They seem to be saying that the change they want can only be achieved with the help of patients (among other stakeholders) That means it won't...
The vast majority of ME/CFS cases are not preceded by a serious infection requiring hospitalization. What is causing the symptoms in these typical...
I agree. Overwork is not a medical condition. The solution is to work less and in better conditions. It's not a problem that a doctor can solve,...
I wonder if these attempts to find a link between emotions and fatigue are due to a misunderstanding of what patients are actually experiencing....
The acute flu is worse than my ME and obvious. My ME is insidious and, at low activity levels, causes only mild symptoms that aren't visible. It...
Having the flu every now and then is sufficiently different from having ME all the time. The flu doesn't give you delayed reaction to exertion,...
The root of the misunderstanding of ME is this: normal people can comprehend difficulty with intense exertion because of their experience with...
We need a test to document the inability to sustain exertion over time. Something that can show that in comparison to an average person of the...
Can you elaborate on this? Is it for example the idea that everyone experiences fatigue, but that ME/CFS have somehow trained their perception of...
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