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  1. ItsMERJD

    Review Frontiers in chronic fatigue syndrome research: An analysis of the top 100 most influential articles in the field, 2023, Wang

    Just echoing the point above - 163.com is a huge email provider, lots of our students use them amongst a few others (qq.com etc) and they tend to not use their academic emails once registered with us as they do so much from their smartphones. Our institutional tools don't always play nice with...
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    Opinions on payments to participants in research

    Quoted this bit, but you're right in that it very much depends on status, amounts, and who your benefits assessor is sometimes. We've seen cases where folks receiving some Tesco vouchers have had it seen as income and taking them over their weekly threshold on UC, which resulted in benefits...
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    Opinions on payments to participants in research

    I answered "it depends" too. On some studies, incentives are seen as unethical and I've seen some studies refused ethics on that basis (there's a clear division between incentives and reimbursement for say travel, too). Others it's seen as much more acceptable. Personally, I think...
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    Review What are medical students taught about Persistent Physical Symptoms? A scoping review of the literature, 2024, Burton et al

    You make a good point. They're views that were recognised as incorrect (even in some textbooks as I've read) even a decade ago or more, but persist into the here and now under different labels and different books. I feel the broader issue is what I've mentioned in my later point - that doctors...
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    Editorial: Mind the gap: integrating physical and mental healthcare for children with functional symptoms 2019 Heyman

    It's quite a short article, and essentially boils down to getting mental health services involved earlier so psychological packages of care can be introduced sooner. I think the framing is a bit weird, seeming to imply that folks should be diagnosed with one of these FNDs in order to bring about...
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    Review What are medical students taught about Persistent Physical Symptoms? A scoping review of the literature, 2024, Burton et al

    I could've saved them the time and just shared my experience of studying - it's not taught, and where it's included in textbooks aimed at the undergrad level, a lot of these symptoms/conditions are simply lumped into categories many students don't cover or aren't interested in outside SSCs/SSUs...
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    Psychiatry: An evidence-based text (textbook)

    Eventually got around to reading these chapters. Chapter 49 serves as something of a preamble to the forthcoming chapters, detailing the history of "unexplained illnesses" and debating the issues with the terminology, over time. The writer highlights that these terms were used historically for...
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    Psychiatry: An evidence-based text (textbook)

    I had a brief scan of chapter 51 on lunch yesterday, and at first glance it's not as bad as that synopsis makes out. The writer makes a clear distinction about their beliefs (that ME is a neurological condition, backed by MRI scanning) and that other views are outdated or misconceptions. The...
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