2015

Wilshire, Carolyn & Ward, Tony. (2015). Psychogenic explanations of physical illness: Time to examine the evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science 2016, Vol. 11(5) 606–631. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27694458/ (paywalled) Abstract In some patients with chronic physical...

NOT a recent FOI but from 2015 following the IOM report; many familiar names, thought it might be of interest here. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/357691/response/883778/attach/2/FOI%20EH73066%20Redacted%20documents%20for%20release.pdf

Open access: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/86/10/1113 Glenn Nielsen, Jon Stone, Audrey Matthews, Melanie Brown, Chris Sparkes, Ross Farmer, Lindsay Masterton, Linsey Duncan, Alisa Winters, Laura Daniell, Carrie Lumsden, Alan Carson, Anthony S David, Mark Edwards Abstract Background Patients...

Full reference: Berger, D. (2015). Double-blinding and bias in medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy trials for major depressive disorder. F1000Research, 4. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4732552/ Abstract:

A meta-analysis review worth reading, giving pause to how truly (in)effective many common FDA approved are compared to placebo. How effective are common medications: a perspective based on meta-analyses of major drugs. Leucht et al. BMC Medicine (2015) Abstract The vastness of clinical data...

obviously not new. " Summary Background The PACE trial found that, when added to specialist medical care (SMC), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), or graded exercise therapy (GET) were superior to adaptive pacing therapy (APT) or SMC alone in improving fatigue and physical functioning in...

Not a new study. Reduced parasympathetic reactivation during recovery from exercise in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) 2015 https://www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S0031-9406(15)02014-3/abstract @PhysiosforME you might be interested in these authors...

Interesting article I had not seen before; features Len Jason, PACE trial, David Tuller, Mary Dimmock, Wessely, White, Esther Crawley, Steven Holgate, Jo Edwards and more. just pop this bit in here o_O https://goodmenproject.com/the-good-life/worklife-balance/fighting-over-fatigue/

Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation by Christopher Eccleston Oxford University Press 2015 E-book: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198727903.001.0001/acprof-9780198727903 Chapter 6 about fatigue deals with "chronic fatigue" as identical with "Chronic...

Magnus P1, Gunnes N2, Tveito K3, Bakken IJ2, Ghaderi S2, Stoltenberg C2, Hornig M4, Lipkin WI4, Trogstad L2, Håberg SE2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is associated to infections and it has been suggested that vaccination can trigger the...

Free full text: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.12249

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124648 Abstract Background Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) may respond most favorably to frequent vitamin B12 injections, in vital combination with oral folic acid. However...

I just came across this, from 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/29/coercing-people-mental-health-problems-work-treatment Which I completely agree with, but was surprised to see Wessely saying it. Isn't it his sort of work that gets used to refuse benefits to ME/CFS...

(Not sure exactly what these are, but results are due I think?) PRINCE Primary: Integrated GP Care for Persistent Physical Symptoms - a Feasibility & Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (PRINCE Primary) Sponsor: King's College London Collaborator: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...

From 2015 but I only read it recently: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295644/

From 2015 but to be presented in a talk in July at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference: https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2018 https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2018/abstract/actib-trial-assessing-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-irritable-bowel one of the co-authors is Susan Windgassen...

23-second clip of a segment of Michael Sharpe's appearance on Victoria Derbyshire Talking therapies and exercise for #ME are "not magic cures but useful treatments": Professor Sharpe on his report Does anyone have the full broadcast?

Thought this might be of interest to some people : Title : Early menopause and other gynecologic risk indicators for chronic fatigue syndrome in women Link to whole paper : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745581/ Abstract Objective This study aims to examine whether gynecologic...

Hi there, This is my first post so I wasn't sure which section exactly to post in - feel free to move this if it's not appropriate. I hadn't seen this piece before, it's from 2015. I was posting it here because: - It contains some really good viewpoints and information (but also some stuff...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2015.1035519 Coping with chronic fatigue syndrome: a review and synthesis of qualitative studies Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 2015 Vol. 3, No. 3, 173–188, Irma Pinxsterhuisa,b*, Elin B. Stranda and Unni Sveenc,d a Division of Medicine, Oslo...