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I don't assume it came from the authors--my thought is that the journal saw the evidence and said, this needs to be addressed. The journal, NeuroImage: Clinical, does not seem to have the well-known FND experts on its editorial boards. That was one reason it seemed like a good place to start.

Does someone know how to unroll my twitter thread into a block of text? That way I could post on FB or VB. thanks!

Jon Stone has just published another essay in which he questions whether CODES had the right primary outcome after all. Qualify of life measures are "arguably" more important to patients. Right. According to that theory, patients are more interested in that their seizures are less bothersome to...

I guess I could, or on Facebook. I hadn't really thought of that but no reason not to.

So basically, don't bother to test anything, we can just tell. Just like the claim that Hoover's sign is 100% specific for FND leg weakness when the studies are shit.

In fact, the non-intervention group had a greater reduction of seizures than the control group, although the trend wasn't statistically significant. They touted it based on a few subjective secondary outcomes that showed improvement and decided that seizure reduction was not after all most...

Also, this study is almost exclusively about non-epileptic seizures, not about other forms of what they consider FND.

But this approach would seem to assume, as has been suggested in this thread, that all people meeting the other criteria would naturally be included in the Fukuda group. This assumption is unwarranted. Just like in PACE, embedding sub-groups within the larger Oxford group was a problematic...

I would guess they're probably publishing a selection of responses and the authors will respond to all of them with their usual stupidities and misrepresentations.

In UK, are people allowed to stay overnight with their partners/parents/kids in the hospital? Not since Covid, but previously in US it was normal for them bring a cot for you to sleep and stay there next to the person, assuming the person's condition permitted it. I mostly lived in the hospital...

What? I always thought he was a few years older than me. He looks so distinguished to be just 66!!

Nothing wrong with two co-morbid functional disorders! They require separate specialized forms of CBT.

I felt a chill in the air over the weekend of the APA meeting in San Francisco. Luckily, I managed not to see Professor Sharpe's talk--costs $$ to get into the conference. I assumed that was likely the reporter's mistake. Sharpe is proud of PACE and no reason from his perspective not to cite it...

Right, it is unfalsifiable. Because you can have Parkinson's AND have a functional tremor that is different from a Parkinsonian tremor (per the FND experts). Or you can have epileptic seizures as well as functional/dissociative seizures, so even if they decide you have epilepsy after giving you...

Right. It's like if they find something else, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card--well, we were right, you did have FND and you still do as a co-morbidity or as an "overlay." Basically, it's unfalsifiable.

it is. how interesting.

and Brian knows how to do PowerPoint much better than me!!!

it seems pretty clear to me there is a heavy dose of "that dessicated dualistic thinking" (as a certain Professor White once wrote to me, more or less, in an era when we had a brief exchange) in this emeritus person's musings about CFS, fibro and psychiatric states.

Yeah it’s a textbook so it’s expensive! Bummer!

It looks odd, but I don't know statistics well enough to really have an opinion about what it could mean. I'm also not clear on when/why one would use a standard error rather than a standard deviation.