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'Results have implications for treatment development and suggest that interpersonal operant conditioning may contribute to fatigue becoming a chronic symptom.' Most definitely not a recommendation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796718300135

The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...

Hello all, I'm pleased to report that our major critique and reanalysis of the PACE trial has been accepted for publication in BMC Psychology. Title: Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and...

Mitochondria are apparently now part of the psychosomatic construct! https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/fulltext/2018/02000/Psychological_Stress_and_Mitochondria___A.3.aspx Thanks to Amanda on Facebook for finding this.

Psychother Psychosom. 2007;76(3):171-6. Is a full recovery possible after cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome? Knoop H1, Bleijenberg G, Gielissen MF, van der Meer JW, White PD. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue...

Open access at http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/30/archdischild-2017-314138 if you can stomach it. Crawley continues her "chronic disabling fatigue" = ME fiction "Here we use data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) to investigate whether levels and...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105318755264#articleShareContainer (Free full text - mentions PACE)

CATO-senteret, a rehabilitation center for children and adolescents with a biopsychosocial approach to ME, invites health personell to a conference titled "When the body refuse". I noticed both prof. Wyller and Lillebeth Larun (from the Cochrane review group on ME) among the speakers. From...

A Norwegian medical doctor Henrik Vogt (with a biopsychosocial approach to ME) has tweeted possibly the meanest display of points scoring that I've come across. (In case he deletes it, attached file is a screen shot of the tweet) The text is "CFS/ME: Swedish couple lost hope, kill their...

Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health Guidance for commissioners of services for people with medically unexplained symptoms pge 6 Functional somatic syndromes by specialty Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis https://www.jcpmh.info/wp-content/uploads/jcpmh-mus-guide.pdf

Abstract OBJECTIVES: Fatigue is a prevalent and debilitating symptom, preceded by an acute infectious episode in some patients. This systematic review aimed to identify risk factors for the development of persistent fatigue after an acute infection, to develop an evidence-based working model of...

The international collaborative on fatigue following infection (COFFI), 2018, Katz et al. Ben Z Katz,Simon M Collin,Gabrielle Murphy,Rona Moss-Morris,Vegard Bruun Wyller,Knut-Arne Wensaas,Jeannine L.A. Hautvast,Chantal P Bleeker-Rovers,Ute Vollmer-Conna,Dedra Buchwald,Renée Taylor,Paul...

Also mentions ME and GET. https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/civil-servant-sparks-fresh-concerns-over-ideological-basis-of-jobs-strategy/

Posted by: "Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks" Sent: Saturday 13 January 2018 10:46 To: LOCALME <localme@yahoogroups.com>; MEACTIONUK <meactionuk@yahoogroups.com>; MECHAT-L <mechat-l@listserv.icors.org>; Colin Barton <colin.barton@btinternet.com> Subject: Alastair Miller: The prognosis of CFS/ME The...

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)32589-2/fulltext Lancet. 2017 Jul 22;390(10092):363-373. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32589-2. Epub 2017 Jun 22. Guided graded exercise self-help plus specialist medical care versus specialist medical care alone for chronic...

Following on from Nathalie Wrights article in the Independent. "Actually, I think this has been coming for a long time, but it just might have happened this morning in the UK online newspaper, The Independent. The public conversation has shifted about the biopsychosocial model of myalgic...

This was from last year at some point, but it was recently mentioned again on Facebook and we didn't seem to have a thread for it here (although it is mentioned in at least one other post in another thread). http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/in-the-expectation-of-recovery.html...

Paywalled at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21641846.2018.1419553?journalCode=rftg20

Positive and negative affect mediate the bidirectional relationship between emotional processing and symptom severity and impact in irritable bowel syndrome " Abstract Introduction Individuals with IBS report higher levels of psychological distress compared to healthy controls. Distress has...

A test of the adaptive network explanation of functional disorders using a machine learning analysis of symptoms Author Information: Melidis C, Denham SL, Hyland ME. University of Plymouth Abstract The classification and etiology of functional disorders is controversial. Evidence supports both...