2008

Abstract Background: Fatigue is highly prevalent and has a negative impact on quality of life and performance in a variety of disorders. The 9-item Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) is one of the most commonly used self-report questionnaires to measure fatigue, but has only been validated in small...

https://www.europeanreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/8519-8536.pdf See table 1 for protein vs HCs. Brought up as I read a post by @Andy about a possible study on salivary peptide fatigue testing in me/cfs. Could this be useful to find a biomarker in me/cfs?

Identification of differential genetic profiles in severe forms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: A population-based genetic association study Ferran J. Garcia-Fructuoso, Jose Ignacio Lao-Villadoniga, Cristina Santos, Violant Poca-Dias, Joaquim...

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/pm/research/cfs/publications/assets/2009/Robertssalivary.pdf

Acute Phase Phospholipids Related to the Cardiolipin of Mitochondria in the Sera of Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Chronic Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CCFP), and Other Diseases Attributed to Chemicals, Gulf War, and Marine Toxins Yoshitsugi Hokama 1 , Cara Empey-Campora, Cynthia...

I came across this on the Cochrane Central Database but cannot find any publication. Original Title: Optimalization of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for CFS patients in rehabilitation by means of ambulatory activity‐based feedback (ABF) ‐ Ambulatory activity‐based feedback (ABF)...

Have just skimmed through this and will watch in full at a later date. Very telling. Very brazen about all the little slight of hand tricks his posse have used over time.

An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Open access at...

An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Open access at...

"The Six Habits of Highly Respectful Physicians" by Michael W. Kahn New York Times, DEC. 1, 2008 Not "News", yet still deserves attention IMO.The author is one of the few psychiatrists who signed Vincent Racaniello's / David Tuller's Open letter to the Lancet*...

Old Familiar, Deare and Chalder excelling themselves here. Scores highly on the "drivelometer". PwME "score more highly on neuroticism and unhealthy perfectionism" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08870440802403863?scroll=top&needAccess=true

As we've got a new forum, now when I come across an old annoying thing I thought I might post them up for newcomers' pleasure. There's been a lot of discussion recently of how treatments like CBT can encourage patients to fill in questionnaires more positively, even if more objective measures...