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Ha, I just noticed: "female gender... may contribute to ongoing fatigue..." We see what you did there. You just slipped that in, right next to the "psychological factors" without commenting on it directly. Its hard to believe that a team headed by a woman would stoop to such a tactic. Or...

I'm honestly really not sure sometimes if this team are having genuine trouble getting their heads around the difference between correlation and causation, or whether they fully understand these concepts, but pretend not to so that they can draw conclusions that are in line with their beliefs -...

I meant to add that I consider "maladaptive" be similarly valenced. The thing that bothers me about terms such as "maladaptive" is that they fail to respect the inherent intelligence and agency of human beings, our capacity to come up with ways of dealing with our own problems and limitations...

@dave30th, you got farther than me. I could find no publisher and no contact address for this journal, and the Iranian Council for Exceptional Children doesn't seem to exist if Google is to be believed (maybe I needed to search in Arabic?). The journal seems to be based out of Iran, many of the...

Another concept that seems unassailable because it cleverly capitalises on a "negative moral valence" word. "Negative moral valence words" is just my own phrase to describe words or phrases used to label a construct that carry an implicit judgement that they are inherently "bad things" - in a...

Oh, this made me smile: I never realised capitalism was a the root of all our suffering! You will also smile at this bio of Dr. Diserholt's supervisor: Lacan's "Ecrits". "aporetic divisions" The sheer pretence of it all! I used to be against de-funding of the humanities, but this thesis...

PS It just occurred to me that another reason mpdi might be a bit loose and free in their soliciting behaviour is that the more submissions they get overall, the more they can afford to decline - which will enhance their acceptance rate statistics, making the journals look more "discerning"...

@DMissa, I agree that there are ones out there that are way worse. But here are a few of my unsolicited emails from mdpi in the last few weeks: XXX was a phrase from my ResearchGate page, which stated three broad areas I work in. They are three areas that very few people combine, so it was...

I agree. It might simply be a signal that energy metabolism is not right. It might have the happy effect of being protective too, but that's not essential to the explanation.

@Snow Leopard, I agree this statement below can be read to mean they believe "inflammation takes away your interest in doing things". But its fairly clear elsewhere in the article that it is not the instrinsic value of the reward that changes, but the estimation of how much effort would be...

That seemed to me to be exactly what they were saying - but its not my area, so maybe I missed something?

To explain a bit more, the authors propose that the subjective feeling of fatigue has a specific behaviorual manifestation that's measureable: a change in what they call "effort discounting" (a tendency to choose low effort behaviours that provide low rewards over high effort behaviors, even if...

This is absolutely fascinating - thanks for posting! I think this paper is really important for ME, because it provides a framework for understanding how inflammation might lead to the subjective experience of fatigue. It does so with no handwaves about the evolutionary function of "sickness...

Just a note that mdpi journals (where this was published) are widely considered to be predatory. That is, they make their money out of stalking researchers and academics on the internet, and getting them to part with money in return for a "peer reviewed" publication. The clue is in the emphasis...

Oh, no, so sorry, @JemPD, I was in no way trying to criticise your post, and your point is a very good one. We want the health we had before, so we can choose what to do with it, just like a healthy person can - and isn't that what recovery is all about? I was meaning to criticise the original...

But how is it any better than a peripheral mechanism account, for example, the idea that the pain is related to proinflammatory cytokines, or the like? That sounds way more plausible to me. If I were an FM patient, I'd be fighting at least for the parity for these two accounts until better...

I absolutely hate the idea that's wrapped up in this statement - that we sort of brought this on ourselves. We're supposed to regret the lifestyle choices we made when we were well because they "caused" us to get sick. We worked too hard, played too hard, drank too much, or weren't sufficiently...

Yes, yes, totally this! We see what you did there, White et al.

I had a read of the article, not every word, but I think enough to get the main message. What they did: They asked people to respond to various questions at regular times throughout the day for 15 days, and they also got them to wear an actometer. The measures included how happy/sad/anxious the...

Hmmm, I would go for ResarchGate - you're right, technically, the rules only cover personal and institutional repositories, and ResearchGate is a third party private host. So yes, if you want to stay strictly in the rules, its not allowed. But in practice, everyone ignores that. The big...