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I'd guess that footnotes 4 & 5 probably pertained to paragraphs on the second page of the letter (footnotes 1-3 are referenced in paragraphs on the first page). Footnote 4 does seem like it could apply to the second paragraph of page 2 of the letter. Footnote 5 is harder to figure out. Maybe it...

I'm pretty sure that Shorter has argued that "shellshock" was similar to, if not just another cultural appellation for conditions such as neurasthenia, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and Gulf War syndrome. I came across this paper from September 2019, however, in which the author...

I have occasionally experienced the afterimage thing. It has seemed connected to the tail end of a viral infection, or otherwise being more run down than usual. It might have something to do with sleep deprivation. Odder, for me, is "flickering vision," in which image brightness rapidly...

Using "alternative explanation" doesn't make sense unless some other explanation had been mentioned earlier in the letter. None was. I think it's probably a "typo" in which the word "alternative" was used instead of "explanation." "The patients in this trial had a disabling chronic illness in...

In case anyone was wondering how they got "CORPUS"... COst-effectiveness of psychosomatic theRapy for patients frequently attending Primary care with medically Unexplained Symptoms https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/7157 [ I judge this as the worst acronym since the "PHLEGM" trial. :)]

Hmmm. I would have guessed that "psychosomatic therapy" was where practitioners offered psychological advice because it makes them feel better.

The general idea of CFS-like symptoms being created by the overgrowth of a toxin-producing microbe in the gut goes back at least to the early 1980's, with the "hangover" toxin acetaldehyde being thought overproduced by too much "candida albicans" in the gut. The media played this up in the...

I'd imagine that a battery powered LCD alarm clock would be silent. The backlight on these is OFF by default (because it consumes too much battery power), so it should be invisible in the dark until you press the backlight button. Some are USB powered, so battery life is not an issue (although...

From the paper: This kind of reminds me of what someone once said about the correlation between intelligence and longevity. "Einstein was a very smart guy, but he didn't live orders of magnitude longer than the rest of us."

I can't judge the quality of this paper without knowing the authors' incomes. ;)

I wondered the same thing, but it's impossible to know. Even if this discussion of funding were the reason the video was pulled, Dr. Lipkin may have been the one who asked that it be pulled.

I didn't completely follow this, but he mentioned herpes viruses a couple of times. Later when talking about an expensive sequencing test he mentions: Later still, when talking about developing animal models to test, he says: I could have this wrong, but it sounds like the persistence of...

A couple of quotes I found particularly interesting... [bolding mine] Speaking about the microbiome: And...

From the video:

It also could be the amount of something in the blood. There could be too little (or none) of something in the blood that's necessary, or too much of something that may or may not be necessary but which is toxic at high levels. High on my list of suspects would be some metabolite created by a...

Even if the only use of the nanoneedle technology was its ability to reliably distinguish ME/CFS patients from controls, it would still be a huge step forward for research.

Do you need to belong to Faceboook?

"Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry" used to be called "Psychosomatic Medicine" which was defined as "the psychiatry of the medically ill." In effect, these were psychiatrists who were brought in to consult on psychiatric problems brought on by physical illness. This could include evaluating...

I was kind of thinking that "autonomic hypervigilance" might prevent (central) sleep apnea from occurring in the first place, so they wouldn't see a connection between the two.

This is becoming the longest goodbye since The Who announced their Farewell Tour in 1982.