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Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

Guardian: Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid More than 110,000 children in England and Scotland are still...

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Sean liked bobbler's post in the thread Stigmatisation in clinical consultations for persistent physical symptoms/functional disorders: A best fit framework synthesis, 2024, Treufeldt et al.

Indeed. There is a major issue here. Interesting that 'it can't be seen'. And, whilst there are various questions these days about the...

Sean liked Hutan's post in the thread Stigmatisation in clinical consultations for persistent physical symptoms/functional disorders: A best fit framework synthesis, 2024, Treufeldt et al.

What then do they think are the problems? Society's belief that objectively measurable disorders are more real and worthy than other...

Sean liked Hutan's post in the thread Stigmatisation in clinical consultations for persistent physical symptoms/functional disorders: A best fit framework synthesis, 2024, Treufeldt et al.

And that's the end of that possible source of stigma as far as the authors are concerned - when actually power differences and the...

Sean liked Hutan's post in the thread Stigmatisation in clinical consultations for persistent physical symptoms/functional disorders: A best fit framework synthesis, 2024, Treufeldt et al.

1. Create the stigma 2. Categorise the stigma There's definitely a sense of hand-wringing from a number of these papers on FND stigma....

Sean liked Eleanor's post in the thread Adam Mastroianni - blogs on research methodology.

Unserious Science The first section of this article by Adam Mastroianni made me think of quite a few studies that show up in the...

Sean liked rvallee's post in the thread BMJ - Not "all in the mind", 2024, Richards.

Heeeh... not true. Not entirely. It's only true because psychosomatic medicine is not formally a specialty of its own, but for decades...

Sean liked poetinsf's post in the thread NIH study - where to start?.

If I recall correctly, the 1-day CPET was used as a proof that the subjects were able to exert as well as the controls. PEM was...

Sean liked forestglip's post in the thread NIH study - where to start?.

Yeah, looking at the actual study, I think this is the extent of testing performed one or more days post-CPET: And no meaningful...

Sean liked Yann04's post in the thread NIH study - where to start?.

PEM is mentioned 3 times in the study, as opposed to 26 times for “effort preference”. There no mention of PEM anywhere in their...

Sean liked forestglip's post in the thread NIH study - where to start?.

Did they completely ignore PEM? From what I recall of the symposium - though I don't have the energy to seek out where in the video they...

Sean liked poetinsf's post in the thread NIH study - where to start?.

To me, it's not the "effort preference" that is the most objectionable. It could well be that ME/CFS patients can exert as much as...

Sean liked SNT Gatchaman's post in the thread Poor sleep quality may trigger cognitive deficits after recovery from COVID-19, 2024, Carnes-Vendrell et al..