2021

https://eabct.eu/ https://eabct2021.org/downloads/EABCT2021-Final-Programme-Nearly.pdf " Symposium 34 – Meeting Room 2A Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for patients with Persistent Physical Symptoms Chair: Trudie Chalder, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK...

Abstract Functional autoantibodies directed to the M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M2R) could affect the heart rate directly by altering cardiac M2R activity and/or indirectly by changing vagal-mediated cardiac M2R activity. We measured M2R autoantibody activity in sera from 10 subjects...

Abstract Long-COVID-19 is a proposed syndrome negatively affecting the health of COVID-19 patients. We present data on self-rated health three to eight months after laboratory confirmed COVID-19 disease compared to a control group of SARS-CoV-2 negative patients. We followed a cohort of 8786...

Published today in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Essentials of Diagnosis and Management Lucinda Bateman, MD, Alison C. Bested, MD, Hector F. Bonilla, MD, Bela V. Chheda, MD, Lily Chu, MD, MSHS, Jennifer M. Curtin, MD, Tania T. Dempsey, MD...

From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks A Dutch CFS/ME-clinic is one of the nominees to receive this year's quackery award. Translation from Dutch to English (see section 6 of the press release)...

Highlights • Long Covid is a patient-defined illness which gained legitimacy in online communities. • We analysed long Covid narratives using socio-narratology. • Narrators used literary devices to make sense of illness and persuade their audiences. • A unique feature of many narratives was...

Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating disease usually presenting after infection. Emerging evidence supports that energy metabolism is affected in ME/CFS, but a unifying metabolic phenotype has not been firmly established. We performed global...

Highlights • CBT is a promising treatment for patients with FND. • Remote delivery of CBT can potentially increase access to care for patients with FND. • Remote CBT can be integrated into clinical practice using a stepwise approach. • Remote CBT can be integrated into practice using...

A significant proportion of COVID-19 patients are suffering from prolonged Post-COVID-19 Fatigue Syndrome, with characteristics typically found in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). However, no clear pathophysiological explanation, as yet, has been provided. A novel...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia (FM) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are devastating metabolic neuroimmune diseases that are difficult to diagnose because of the presence of numerous symptoms and a lack of specific biomarkers. Despite patient heterogeneity linked to...

Full title: Neutralization of Autoantibodies Targeting G-Protein Coupled Receptors Improves Capillary Impairment and Fatigue Symptoms after COVID-19 Infection Abstract Clinical features of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) are caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2...

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"We call on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to publish the finalised ME/CFS guideline in its current form. People with ME are depending on the finalised guideline to transform the care they receive: ensuring accurate diagnosis, appropriate symptom management, and...

Abstract PRINCE Secondary was a randomised trial to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of therapist-delivered, transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy (TDT-CBT) for patients with persistent physical symptoms (PPS) (Chalder et al., 2021). In total, 324 PPS patients were randomised to...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and now many face the burden of prolonged symptoms—long-lasting COVID-19 symptoms or “long-COVID”. Long-COVID is thought to be linked to immune dysregulation due to harmful...

Jennie Jacques on living with ME: ‘I am a shadow of my former self physically’ , The Times, August 18 2021 by Sean O' Neill As her 30th birthday approached, Jennie Jacques was on the up and on the verge of a breakthrough to big-screen stardom. The British actress had played the leading part of...

Abstract Background Recently there has been increased interest in a possible association between mast cell activation (MCA) disorder and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This study examined the frequency with which symptoms and laboratory findings suggesting MCA disorder...

Not sure which forum to post this to but it looks interesting. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prm/2021/6627864/ Research Article | Open Access Volume 2021 |Article ID 6627864 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6627864 Impaired Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Function in Pediatric Chronic...

Health, Wellbeing, and Prognosis of Australian Adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A Case-Controlled Follow-Up Study Abstract Background: The purpose of this study was to follow-up an Australian cohort of adolescents newly-diagnosed with ME/CFS at a...

Full title: Sex differences in the trajectories to diagnosis of patients presenting with common somatic symptoms in primary care: an observational cohort study Highlights • Sex differences exist in diagnostic trajectories of patients with somatic symptoms. • Men with somatic symptoms receive...