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    Anomalies in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline for (CFS & ME), 2023, White et al

    Yes it's in the long list of affiliated researcher publications: https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/publications
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    Trial Report Perceived cognitive impairment is related to internalizing psychopathology but unrelated to objective cognitive performance, etc., 2023, Finley et al

    Internalizing Psychopathology - its place in the hierarchy (yes seriously) but it's fine there's a nice chart: Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology "The internalizing spectrum comprises maladaptive traits of emotional lability, anxiousness, separation insecurity, submissiveness...
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    Book: Treatment of Neurasthenia, 1914, Hartenberg

    Hartenberg still has fans: The treatment of social phobia - 100 Years ago Abstract An important early work by the French psychiatrist, Paul Hartenberg, Les Timides et la Timidité, published in 1901, has been overlooked in the English language literature on Social Phobia. Hartenberg's...
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    Preprint The predictive role of pain catastrophising following genicular arterial embolisation for the treatment of mild and moderate knee OA, 2023, Harrison+

    First author: Rich Harrison CINN Pain Lab "If you hold your hand close to a fire, the heat causes you to pull your hand away, to avoid the painful experience. This simplistic view of pain and our response to pain, as being a purely physical response and experience was...
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    Functional Overlay Model of Persistent Post-Concussion Syndrome, 2023, Mavroudis et al

    Spoke too soon: Now fallen out of favour but an important conceptual link between malingering and false illness belief is "Functional overlay" Went back to check Google Scholar - could only find three mentions of the precise term 'functional overlay', since year 2000 - why have the authors...
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    Thesis Grief, corporality and violence: An Anthropological critique of biopsychiatric approaches to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2023, Becerra Castro

    Not able to read Spanish I can't fairly comment on the thesis but I don't I warm to this type of approach and while no doubt it is legitimate within its academic boundary, to me its unhelpful in terms of advocacy. Structural Violence theory ends up making a victim of everybody except healthy...
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    John Campbell - videos on medical issues

    John Campbell (YouTuber) Needle aspiration In September 2021, Campbell said in a video that he believed that most people in the United Kingdom and United States were "giving the vaccines wrongly". Referencing a study on mice, he said that myocarditis could be caused if the person injecting the...
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    The damaging rise in therapy-speak

    All industries, trades and professions have 'special language' which involve both unique terms and special meaning given to otherwise every day language. When elements of these special languages, either a special term or otherwise unfamiliar meaning given to otherwise ordinary speech is found to...
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    United Kingdom News (including UK wide, England, NI and Wales - see separate thread for news from Scotland)

    Jessica Eccles is an NHS psychiatrist and an advisor to the Sussex ME Society: https://www.s4me.info/threads/scientist-joins-sussex-me-societys-advisory-team.5291/ see also Embracing Neurodivergency with Jessica Eccles, M.D. and Jessica A Eccles
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    Neuroinvasion and anosmia are independent phenomena upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, 2023, de Melo et al

    Nature Comminications Neuroinvasion and anosmia are independent phenomena upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants Guilherme Dias de Melo, Victoire Perraud, Flavio Alvarez, Alba Vieites-Prado, Seonhee Kim, Lauriane Kergoat, Anthony Coleon, Bettina Salome Trüeb, Magali Tichit, Aurèle...
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    MISINFORMATION: Multiple Sclerosis Researched As Psychosomatic Condition?

    I don't understand where the misinformation is located. @ME/CFS Skeptic 's article makes it clear that there was no substantive treatment of MS as a psychiatric disease, although of course individual patients may have been misdiagnosed. The prescribing of psychological and/or exercise therapies...
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    Preprint A Proposed Explainable Artificial Intelligence-Based Machine Learning Model for Discriminative Metabolites for ME/CFS, 2023, Yagin et al

    Re: the claim for a 65 million global patient population, this figure via an earlier paper by the same authors is based (numbers not explicit) on this paper: Estimating Prevalence, Demographics, and Costs of ME/CFS Using Large Scale Medical Claims Data and Machine Learning discussed here...
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    Missing the meaning and provoking resistance; a case of myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1996, Butler and Rollnick

    Ditto: Chris Butler: Professor of Primary Care lead the Infections and Acute Care Research Group Clinical Director of the University of Oxford Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit Deputy Clinical Director of the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In-vitro Diagnostics Co-operative Professorial...
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    Clinical support and encouragement versus manipulation (includes motivational interviewing)

    Not every person seen by medical professionals behaves as a 'rational actor' and there is widespread non adherence to prescribed treatments e.g Adherence to treatment and related factors among patients with chronic conditions in primary care: a cross-sectional study Additionally medical...
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    UK: Invest in ME Conference 2023

    But if the process just involves the same small number of people reprising the same approaches that have done little to advance solutions to the problems being investigated, then the whole thing is just performative. I suspect that there may be a generational aspect to the benefits of virtual...
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    David Systrom, researcher, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA

    We might like a simple diagnostic test - but that doesn't mean ME/CFS is amenable to one.
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