Functional Cognitive Disorder: Diagnostic Challenges and Future Directions, 2019, Pennington et al

Open access at https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/9/4/131

 

FLUFF will be back when I have consumed enough coffee... sometime never

 

Never heard of this diagnostic entity. New ones springing up all the time.

 

Ugh. Using the Montreal cognitive assessment, used specifically for severe dementia, shows how utterly clueless these dolts are. This is a test where it asks you identify among 3 animals which one is the camel. Come on, this isn't serious, it has nothing whatsoever to do with what we are describing. There is a huge difference between listening and hearing-and-dismissing.

Of course you're going to find a disconnect between self-reported impairment and tests if you use the wrong tests. Using the same logic you would dismiss chemo brain, a very comparable cognitive impairment, despite it having extensive clinical observation.

Here's a challenge: go away and do something more appropriate to your skills, whatever those are. Leave this to competent people.

This is not what we mean by cognitive impairment. Listen to the words that are coming out of our mouths!

 

So significant differences between subjective and objective observations are related to underlying psychological factors. What does that say about PACE and the other studies.

 

They don't have the tools to measure our cognitive difficulties.

There is something frightening when a group of people have the ability to take patients' reality and fictionalize it simply because they cannot accurately measure or identify it.

I pity these people if comprehensive post-mortem brain biopsies for patients with reported cognitive deficits ever become routine.

 

Is it no surprise this is from Bristol?