Continuing Education Activity
In the 1960s, Aaron Beck developed cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or cognitive therapy. Since then, it has been extensively researched and found to be effective in a large number of outcome studies for psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety disorders...
Neúnavní joins the World ME Alliance to represent the Czech Republic
https://worldmealliance.org/2023/06/neunavni-joins-the-world-me-alliance-to-represent-the-czech-republic/
Also posted here, News from the Visegrád Countries - Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary
Neúnavní joins the World ME Alliance to represent the Czech Republic
"We are thrilled to announce the newest member of the World ME Alliance: Neúnavní. This Czech charity is dedicated to supporting individuals living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in the Czech Republic. Neunavní has been...
Objective: To analyze the potential impact of sociodemographic, clinical and biological factors on the long-term cognitive outcome of patients who survived moderate and severe forms of COVID-19.
Methods: We assessed 710 adult participants (Mean age = 55 ± 14; 48.3% were female) 6 to 11 months...
Now published
Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial
Background
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is an emerging chronic illness potentially...
Of course pacing allows more IF capacity improves but that isn't what is claimed here.
"Consequently, perceived energy levels will increase over time and fatigue levels decrease, allowing patients to progressively perform higher levels of physical and cognitive activities."
The description of pacing starts alright but then veers off into graded activity territory.
"They consist of adapting and adjusting the different patients’ activities in terms of physical, cognitive and emotional effort within the limits imposed by the illness [28]. Pacing is very similar to...
They actually cover this point somewhat
"This study enforces the recommendation for the use of a consistent set of outcome measures in studies in COVID-19. One such list of recommended variables is the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) set of patient-centred...
From my quick scan of the references, this paper was the closest that the authors came to referencing anything remotely like ME/CFS, and it's the latest garbage from the COFFI crew, Jama - Prevalence and Characteristics with Post-COVID-19 Condition Among Non-hospitalized Adolescents... -...
No mention at all of PEM/PESE or of ME/CFS in the paper that I could find.
The bolded sentence seems strangely worded to me.
"This study has implications for the targeting of limited resources to effectively address functional limitations from PCS. Of particular concern is the large proportion...
Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link
"Vaccination against shingles might also prevent dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study of health records from around 300,000 people in Wales. The analysis found that getting the vaccine...
To repeat what has been said already, for the most accurate results from any meta analysis then the inclusion criteria that the data is based on needs to be the same.
DecodeME has used the IOM/NAM and CCC, and there is nothing there to confirm what criteria the Lifeline's cohort will use, so...
Review article.
Authors:
Karl Jonathan MORTEN
University of Oxford
Leah Davis
University of Oxford
Tiffany A. Lodge
University of Oxford
James Strong
University of Oxford
José Andrés Espejo-Oltra
Catholic University of Valencia Saint Vincent Martyr
Pawel Zalewski
Medical University of...
Trial By Error: A Letter Regarding Inflated Prevalence Rates for Functional Neurological Disorder
I have posted previously about how papers on functional neurological disorder (FND) have routinely mis-cited a seminal 2010 study in asserting that the diagnosis is the second-most-common...
"MDD and CFS were diagnosed using the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM5) [8], and with the 1994 Center for Disease Control clinical criteria [11], respectively"
"Dr Katrina Pears attended the 2-day research conference for the ME Association and reports on a selection of the presentations. The conference programme can be accessed here. It included 28 short presentations and a poster session with 25 posters (that included Dr Karl Morten speaking about his...
From 2001, about another similar case.
"Sally Clark was sent to prison two years ago, condemned to life inside for murdering her two babies because - among other evidence - there was only 'one chance in 73 million' of the babies, born a year apart, both dying of natural causes.
But the...
"Direction for future research
The limitations of the current review provide important insights into directions for future research. It is recommended that future trials expand upon the current findings through examining other chronic health condition populations experiencing significant...
Abstract
Objective
Fatigue is significantly more prevalent in the chronically ill compared to healthy individuals. Fatigue is one of the most reported and debilitating symptoms in individuals with chronic health conditions. Despite this, there is limited evidence examining the efficacy of...
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