Point for using an objective measure. Not nothing, but not a lot either. Could be just a training/familiarity effect? Interesting. @Snow Leopard
Which doesn't exactly support psychogenic causation. Yet... Dare I suggest a much more rigorous and honest assessment of the whole FND concept...
Despite the tendency to use the term functional in the recent highly cited publications, its low prevalence and coexistence with several other...
I think there is serious value in a culture of semi-formal preprint review. Probably one of the more important developments in science in recent...
"At the same time as they present the FND diagnosis as a kind of place-holder pending further developments, they also seem to indicate that it...
'Management consultants' like McKinsey are the very same clowns that helped get us into these situations. It is impossible to be too cynical...
The denial is blatant, profound, systemic, and ruthless. It is no accident. They have botched it badly and done terrible damage. And they know it.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help those with ME/CFS manage their...
I strongly suspect that this is what lies behind many claims of 'recovery'. In conjunction with patients trying to both downplay it to themselves...
Nah, some of them have been flogging that one for a while. Trying to expand the empire to encompass, well, everybody.
All the usual ones. :rolleyes:
Gaslighting the desperate. About as low as it gets.
Sicker patients tend to do less well. Who knew?
And I think that we need a bit of a wake-up call across the board. A very polite way of saying the profession needs to be dragged kicking and...
At a psychological level, attentiveness appears to be specific to CF-related events Maybe patients need to pay more attention to their body and...
Yep, that is pretty good. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-recovery/101751410
negotiate explanations for symptoms If only my aunt had that option before the bowel cancer killed her. What utter garbage. Shame on medicine....
Replication is important. But you also need to know what it is that you are replicating, and the limits to that.
The Great Re-Labelling Scam continues on unabated. :grumpy:
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