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It's a difficult one is this. I suspect that many of us spend so much time on our own that tthere is nothing to challenge the recall that we have. And we wouldn't remember the things we had forgotten anyway. I do vaguely remember having a discussion with a doctor about memory problems and...

I would like to go back to the comment by PDW that the epidemic cases were different to the modern sporadic cases and that the problem started with the 1978 meeting. It could be said that it is essential for the BPS followers to assert the distinction. Wessely, Hotopf and Sharpe are on record...

Merely as a matter of detail I wondered whether either of the postural or the orthostatic were otiose, being synonymous, or whether there was some postural tachycardia which was not orthostatic. It seems that the two are alternatives and that the term was PoTS- Postural Tachycardia Syndrome...

By way of contrast with the writing of this author I thought I would provide an indication of SW's earliest recorded musings on this subject in 1987. This was the reason this article seemed benign : The treatment of mass motor hysteria is more complex. Steps must be taken to remove the...

An astute editor might see this as an opportunity to steal a march on his competitors by showing a greater commitment to accuracy, integrity and ethical standards. A first very tentative step has been made. It just needs a little further reflection.

I thought I had better find my authority for this claim. It was in part: We therefore propose that cognitive factors (in this case beliefs about health and illness) play an important part in perpetuating chronic disability. These so-called dysfunctional beliefs act as mediators of dysfunction...

Clearly it must be put in the WOO category. Those who know their Beethoven will know that stands for Werke ohne Opus. I cannot imagine what you thought it was.

Sorry, but the paper on mass hysteria was published a year before that. I will try to find it. It may take some time.

It is necessary to add a caveat to the above. His first paper was on Mass Hysteria and a proposed recategorization. That included a reference to the Royal Free outbreak.

@Mithriel I think you may have misunderstood my point. I may not have been clear. I do not for a moment doubt the existence of these symptoms in some cases, both epidemic and sporadic. My point was that the absence of these features does not rule out the diagnosis and their absence in many...

The trouble with growth industries is that they introduce all sorts of potential conflicts of interest. Is the representation of the child properly independent and fearless in acting in the objective interests of the child, properly considering balance of risk, or is it influenced by scoring...

One is immediately suspicious of a title like "Ills thought out". Too clever by half. Perhaps that is where all the effort went. Clearly indicates the authors "thinking".

One would have thought that having a "personal interest" of the sort that RD does would make him quicker to discount false positive leads which could result in waste of time. His interest is in obtaining an outcome that works. One really does have to wonder about the capacities of some people...

It is interesting to see the dependence on the analogy with treatment for pain. The early justification for use of CBT in CFS was analogy with the reported success of the treatment in fibromyalgia, I have often thought that that was the reason for Wessely and Sharpe having to emphasise...

I wonder if any of this is related to the early hypothesis to account for the fact that medical staff were affected but patients were not. It was suggested that sedentary individuals might be protected.

Attempts to discredit the 1978 conclusions started long before PDW. There was a supposed epidemic in Southampton in 1979 written up in 1980 which looked to have very little to do with ME. All bar one of the patients were supposedly recovered within two months. The other was found to have a known...

Thanks Suzy .It is very helpful to have the resources linked . The first of those rather confirms my view that too much may be made of the obvious neurological features for distinguishing epidemic from sporadic cases: In a minority of cases frank neurological signs can be detected by careful...

Thanks for that but unfortunately it seems to be the 1993 symposium-unless there is something else there that I have not spotted. The 1988 one seems much more obscure.

There was also his comment in the Elliot Slater lecture, I probably paraphrase, "What's a little up or down regulation between friends?" One has to make certain allowances for the forum and the nature of the speech, but that does cast some doubt on the seriousness of the enterprise. If I recall...