wessely

Abstract Service in the Persian Gulf in 1991 is associated with increased reporting of symptoms and distress in a proportion of those who served there. Yet despite clear evidence of an increase in symptom burden and a decrease in well being, exhaustive clinical and laboratory based scientific...

Wessely was the senior author of the article & Chalder was a trial investigator. Background: Fatigue is a common symptom for which patients consult their doctors in primary care. With usual medical management the majority of patients report that their symptoms persist and become chronic. There...

To follow from Trish's post (https://www.s4me.info/threads/ltse-long-term-symptom-exacerbation-type-2-me-or-new-diagnosis.27945/#post-422324): The BPS Brigade have been accused of hijacking ME and replacing it with CFS emphasizing the symptom of fatigue and ignoring PEM. However from what I've...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF

Quarmby L, Rimes KA, Deale A, Wessely S, Chalder T. Cognitive-behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: comparison of outcomes within and outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial. Behav Res Ther. 2007;45(6):1085-1094. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2006.08.019...

Authors Anouk Verveen, Fabiola Müller, Andrew Lloyd, Rona Moss-Morris, Torbjørn Omland, Brenda Penninx, Ruud P.H. Raijmakers, Marike van der Schaaf, Carolina X. Sandler, Knut Stavem, Simon Wessely, Vegard B.B.Wyller, Pythia Nieuwkerk, Hans Knoop 1. Background Now that the COVID-19 pandemic...

Reports, incorporating video footage, of neurological symptoms such as paralysis and seizures as a complication of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination are circulating on social media and have caught the attention of the professional community.1 It is an urgent task to determine whether these are coincidental...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9989716/ A J Cleare 1, E Heap, G S Malhi, S Wessely, V O'Keane, J Miell Abstract Background: Reports of mild hypocortisolism in chronic fatigue syndrome led us to postulate that low-dose hydrocortisone therapy may be an effective treatment. Methods: In a...

paywalled https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/doctors-diary/became-target-militants/ How I became a target for the ME militants The current row over Nice guidelines on chronic fatigue syndrome is strikingly similar to the one I found myself caught up in 20 years ago DR MICHAEL...

Split from NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020 MEpedia states this on the page about the York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination - looks like Wessely had his sticky fingers all over this, which really shouldn’t surprise us at all... “Professor...

Just came across this and thought it might be of interest (its not new, its from 2004) Moncrieff, J., Wessely, S., & Hardy, R. (2004). Active placebos versus antidepressants for depression. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, CD003012.PUB2...

you said it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9655135/EVE-SIMMONS-believe-raking-past-ISNT-good-mental-health.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 (having spelled out the potential harms of one kind of therapy, the article says that "CBT is more effective" and preferred...

Abstract The Wessely School’s (WS) approach to medically unexplained symptoms, myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (MUS/MECFS) is critically reviewed using scientific criteria. Based on the ‘Biopsychosocial Model’, the WS proposes that patients’ dysfunctional beliefs...

"Treatment harms to patients with ME/CFS" Quote: - Despite evidence of physiological and cellular abnormalities in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the dominant therapeutic approach has been cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET)...

I thought that this was of some interest as it has Wessely seeming to be unusually open about the limitations of questionnaires for assessing symptoms/disorders. Though this time that's seemingly partly because it goes against the 'work is good for you' creed used by the UK government (Waddell &...

Due in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/132955332/pdf_proof_re_submit.pdf https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-and-cfs(67b43c92-f30b-4e21-a7b6-1b94e2ead525).html

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

Found by @DigitalDrifter who asked me to post it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401495/?page=1 Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Nov-Dec 1996 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Summary of a Report of a Joint Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists...

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/

https://www.ft.com/content/d6c65a50-6395-11ea-abcc-910c5b38d9ed eta: his usual 'wisdom' and historical waffle