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Discussion of Tamura et al: https://www.s4me.info/threads/animal-models-for-neuroinflammation-and-potential-treatment-methods-2022-tamura-et-al.28604/ Amanita muscaria or Fly Agaric is a beautiful but toxic fungal fruiting body with reputed psychoactive effects. Psyched Wellness reveals...

Saloni Dattani Substack How many people die from snakebites? https://salonium.substack.com/p/14-how-many-people-die-from-snakebites Study: Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study (Suraweera et al., 2020) Here’s a statistic that...

Of interest because it demonstrates the potential for small genetic variation to have subtle impacts on function.

Reduced MC4R signaling alters nociceptive thresholds associated with red hair Kathleen C. Robinson, Lajos V. Kemény, Gillian L. Fell, Andrea L. Hermann, Jennifer Allouche , Weihua Ding, Ajay Yekkirala, Jennifer J. Hsiao, Mack Y. Su, Nicholas Theodosakis , Gabor Kozak , Yuichi Takeuchi, Shiqian...

Flocking/shoaling ? Grants and data are the attractants and the group behaviour based on instinctive following of a small number of individuals, ultimately leading to circular citing and mutual congratulations on coming to the same conclusion because that's where their collective limited...

"Affiliations GeNeuro Innovation" https://www.geneuro.com/en/technologies/rationale "Stopping the progression of autoimmune diseases GeNeuro is pursuing a novel approach for treating autoimmune diseases by seeking to block mechanisms suspected of participating to their onset and development...

Catalogue of Bias About Bias enters health studies at all stages and often influences the magnitude and direction of results. To obtain the least biased information, researchers must acknowledge the potential presence of biases and take steps to avoid and minimise their effects. Equally, in...

The answer is 42 - yes but what is the question ? There a profound problems of interpretability* in AI and it's very difficult to make sound progress if you can't demonstrate how the solution was arrived at. And that's even without the challenge of heterogeneity in ME/CFS - is it a single...

If the market wasn't the source of COVID 19, it nevertheless constituted a serious ongoing public health threat for the spread of known and novel zoonoses. (my bolding) "The HSM is located in the Jianghan District in the downtown area of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, and is...

Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2022 (experimental) "This is the latest quarterly release of statistics on Benefit Sanctions and includes data up to October 2022. Statistics covered in this bulletin include data for sanction decisions during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...

Authors are all statisticians (ONS) or epidemiologists so I'm not sure there is an obvious pro psych agenda. There are limitations on cohort selection and classification - the cohort results from a monitoring programme set up as an early response to the pandemic essentially as a public health...

Journal of Biomedical Informatics PASCLex: A comprehensive post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) symptom lexicon derived from electronic health record clinical notes Liqin Wang, Dinah Foer, Erin MacPhaul, Ying-Chih Lo, David W. Bates, Li Zhou Abstract Objective To develop a comprehensive...

Has the arrival of Long Covid strengthened or weakened the influence of psychosomatic medicine ? There's a lot to unpack in that question, a many to many problem of systems analysis. Long Covid isn't one thing - as a label it's a short hand for a raft of consequences of being infected by a...

This "trap" was explicitly part of the (Lord) Freud reforms of 2010 onward, I can't find the quote but the Secretary of State (IDS ?) stated clearly in an interview that GP letters were to be downgraded and only reports from Specialists would be considered to have primary value in evidence. The...

El Pais One of the most cited scientists in the world, the Spanish chemist Rafael Luque, has been suspended without pay for the next 13 years, according to Luque himself and the institution where he worked until recently, the University of Córdoba in Spain. The university has sanctioned Luque...

DWP PIP warning as thousands of benefit claimants have their payments stopped Thousands have lost their disability benefit because of issues over returning their review forms, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed. As our colleagues at Chronicle Live report, Up to 42,000...

It would be an advance if the decision makers (the DWP employees who are charged with collating the evidence and rendering or refusing an award) were to accord to the letter of the law, it would reduce the number of unnecessary appeals - currently about 1 in 20 decisions are appealed of which...

Also: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-scheme-for-cheaper-hormone-replacement-therapy-launches - Prescription charges only apply in England.

Diagnosis has not served as a substantial weighting factor in awarding UK disability/sickness benefits - the focus even back in the days of the Invalidity Pension was on degree of incapacity as identified by test/assessment, although support of GP and or Specialist did have some weight. For...

About the author: Karina Antram Karina Antram (BSc hons, DIP-NT) is a registered nutritionist and graduate of the renowned College of Naturopathic Medicine and an executive coach. Karina is hugely passionate about health and wellbeing after her own health struggle. Linked-in: Founder of NOCO...