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Abstract Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common issue in the pediatric population. The concept and our understanding of functional neurological disorders have changed over the past years, and new etiologic models and treatment plans have been explored. Knowledge about FND in the...

Abstract Background: A proportion of patients’ ailments may last after recovering from acute COVID-19, with episodic and systemic symptoms of unclear etiology potentially involving different organs. Study aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the persistence of symptoms 15 months...

Highlights • There are concerns about long-term effects of COVID-19 infection on cognition. • During the pandemic students participated in classic cognitive psychology experiments. • There is little difference in cognitive ability for infected and uninfected students. Abstract Emerging...

Abstract Long Covid can affect anyone who has previously had acute COVID-19. The root causes of this syndrome are still unknown, and no effective therapeutics are available. This complex syndrome, with a wide array of symptoms, is still evolving. Given the dire situation, it is important to...

Abstract Studies on cognitive problems of persons with mild COVID-19 courses are still lacking. This study aimed to determine the frequency and associated factors of subjective and objective cognitive problems after COVID-19 in non-hospitalized persons. Study participants were examined at the...

Abstract Multiple studies across global populations have established the primary symptoms characterising Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and long COVID. However, as symptoms may also occur in the absence of COVID-19, a lack of appropriate controls has often meant that specificity of...

Even 'better'.... Comparative effect of progressive relaxation technique and Benson's technique on anxiety and fatigue in cancer survivors - an experimental study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147027222000927

This got mentioned in something I was reading so thought I would post it here, so we could all see how bad it is. The Cancer Fatigue Scale This questionnaire will ask you about any sense of fatigue you might be experiencing. For each question, please circle only one number you think most aptly...

Landmark moment as Parliamentary report recognises energy limiting conditions. "The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has published a seminal briefing on invisible disabilities in education and employment. Chronic Illness Inclusion contributed to the report which discusses the...

Funding announcement. Cause-effect relationships in the mitochondrial energy inefficiency in ME/CFS "We are very pleased to announce that ME Research UK has made a new award for PhD-level research. This project is being conducted at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia by PhD student...

Thread on Visible here, Monitoring app - Visible - a platform "designed for any invisible illness that benefits from resting and pacing - including ME/CFS & Long Covid."

I may be misunderstanding but it seems a very normal reaction to me, or at least a normal reaction for someone with ME.

Full title: The effects of a 15-week physical exercise intervention on pain modulation in fibromyalgia: Increased pain-related processing within the cortico-striatal- occipital networks, but no improvement of exercise-induced hypoalgesia Highlights • Fibromyalgia (FM) patients had reduced...

"Interpretation Four aspects of our findings point to a potential role of disordered interoception and symptom processing in Long Covid. These are (1) the within person variability of symptoms; (2) the relationship between symptoms and activity, (3) the between person variation in patterns of...

Abstract Background People with Long Covid (Post Covid-19 Condition) describe multiple symptoms which vary between and within individuals over relatively short time intervals. We aimed to describe the real-time associations between different symptoms and between symptoms and physical activity...

Full title: Autonomic Nervous System Regulation Effects of Epipharyngeal Abrasive Therapy for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Associated With Chronic Epipharyngitis Abstract Objective: To evaluate the autonomic nerve stimulation effect of epipharyngeal abrasive therapy (EAT)...

Abstract Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a chronic disease characterized by various symptoms such as pathological fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and inability to recover energy after waking up. The Yijinjing, a kind of health care practice from ancient China, consists of 12...

Letter to editor. "Since early in the pandemic, fatigue has been recognized as one of the most common persistent complaints in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2, and constitutes one main symptom of the so-called long-COVID syndrome. The term fatigue refers to a sustained feeling of...

Abstract Background Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a multifactorial disease with an unexplained aetiology in which viral infections are possible trigger factors. The aim of this study was to determine the involvement of human herpesvirus (HHV)-6A/B, HHV-7, and...

Pre-print (free access) Abstract Extensive research links regular physical exercise to an overall enhancement of cognitive function across the lifespan. Here, we assess the causal evidence supporting this relationship in the healthy population, using an umbrella review of meta-analyses limited...