Introduction What has been included under the umbrella term “Functional somatic syndromes” (FSS) has varied over the years. Diagnoses such as...
Highlights • Patients with MUS are believed to have a deviant way of presenting symptoms. • We systematically compared language use of patients...
Full title: Barriers and facilitators to implementing interventions for medically unexplained symptoms in primary and secondary care: A systematic...
Full title: Association of Self-reported COVID-19 Infection and SARS-CoV-2 Serology Test Results With Persistent Physical Symptoms Among French...
This thread has been moved from the News subforum and renamed following a published paper based on Cheston's work. Respect and Shame in...
Possible causes of medically unexplained symptoms Many people with medically unexplained symptoms, such as tiredness, pain and heart...
Abstract Introduction Central sensitization (CS) may explain the persistence of symptoms in patients with chronic pain and persistent physical...
Abstract Sickness behavior including malaise, fatigue and increased pain sensitivity is thought to be adaptive and facilitate recovery from...
Abstract The American Psychiatric Association’s, 2013 DSM-5 abandoned the use of the term ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ for non-neurological...
Abstract Objective We investigated the effectiveness of Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) delivered to patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome...
Abstract PRINCE Secondary was a randomised trial to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of therapist-delivered, transdiagnostic cognitive...
Full title: Symptom attribution to a medically unexplained syndrome is associated with greater perceived severity and bothersomeness of symptoms...
This 2007 study from the Journal of Psychosomatic Research to my mind suggests that retrospective subjective symptom reporting in MUS is useless....
Abstract Objectives Health services to date have inadequately addressed the physical and mental health needs of patients with medically...
Abstract Metasynthesis is currently considered one of the most promising directions for qualitative research, as it can contribute to the...
Somatic symptoms without a clear-cut organic or biomedical background, also called “medically unexplained” or “somatoform” symptoms, are frequent...
Abstract The Wessely School’s (WS) approach to medically unexplained symptoms, myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (MUS/MECFS)...
The spin on this is quite shocking:...
There is some discussion of ME/CFS and medically unexplained symptoms in this including mention of papers by Keith Geraghty and Diane O'Leary....
What does it mean that the top investigators in a field of research have collectively and consistently misrepresented a seminal figure in their...
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