Documents like this really should not be behind a paywall.
One justification given by the PACE investigators, and also separately by Wessely, for the changes was that it made the results consistent with...
Results show that those who participate in individual‐level interventions have the same levels of mental well‐being as those who do not In other...
What were the outcome measures?
The lack of support from objective measures. No difference at 2.5 year follow up.
although it has a limited impact on fatigue and physical activity levels. No impact, according to the abstract. These findings advocate a shift...
That would be the social part of psycho-social.
I first learned the term 4 years into it, and it was a real shock of recognition, light bulb turning on moment.
They are told that they are suffering from stress; that they are depressed or anxious. The implication is that their condition is psychosomatic;...
This. At my worst I was never out of touch with reality, by any valid measure. It was often very difficult to process what was going on, and I...
Once upon a time neurology was absolutely sure that the reports from MS patients about monocular diplopia (double images in one eye) were...
Meh. He is still clinging just as tightly onto the whole FND project. I don't see much practical distinction between incongruency and...
Once again, the only explanation that makes sense to me about findings like this is that they are downstream secondary consequences of whatever is...
That is the question that needs answering.
Sadly, I have to agree with @JemPD. The risk is too high at this point. We don't have a solid evidentiary case yet about the causes and...
It would have been obvious decades ago. Even if it was a novel form of MS. Desperation, no matter how justified and compelling, is not a reason...
The health care is likely to break down unless we are able to increase the level of functioning for the growing number of patients with complex,...
Sounds all too familiar.
The problem is not with EBM itself, it is with how it has been perverted.
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