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Currently reading about the myth of the schizophrenic mother, and thought this was an interesting read: Mistreatment of Patients' Families by Psychiatrists WILLIAM S. APPLETON Abstract Many schools of psychiatric thought implicate the patient's family in aggravating and even generating his...

Effectiveness of training in guideline-oriented biopsychosocial management of low-back pain in occupational health services – a cluster randomized controlled trial by Ryynänen et al. Objective This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of brief training in the guideline-oriented...

The surveys says: Does that mean people outside the UK cannot participate?

The reasoning: "we can see what the trials cannot" doesn't make much sense to me. If doctors can see with their own eyes that the treatment works, it must be a pretty strong and obvious effect because there are so many confounding factors (age, sex, illness severity etc.) that make it...

This one by Peter Rowe required patients to have neurally mediated hypotension. It concluded: "In our study of adults with CFS, fludrocortisone as monotherapy for NMH was no more efficacious than placebo for amelioration of symptoms." Fludrocortisone acetate to treat neurally mediated...

Some of the treatments listed have been trialled in ME/CFS, often with negative results (caveat: lack of statistical power might also be an explanation for this). In our study of adults with CFS, fludrocortisone as monotherapy for NMH was no more efficacious than placebo for amelioration of...

Thanks for the summary @Kalliope

From the quotes, it's quite clear that the participants' boredom, lack of interest are the result of being severely fatigued/sick. They don't enjoy or look forward to doing things because they are too ill, or the activities they still can do are so limited that it leads to boredom etc. I don't...

Yes throughout the paper, the authors seem to favour I-CBT because that's the version they made and it's shorter and cheaper and at follow-up it didn't perform much worse than traditional CBT. The problem, however, is that the I-CBT intervention didn't significantly outperform the waiting list...

I think the key word here is "waiting list control group". Patients who received treatment I-CBT were compared to patients who also wanted I-CBT but were put on a waitlist for several weeks before they could try it. Suppose a manufacturer wants to test the satisfaction with a new laptop...

It seems like the text of a poster presentation was published? It reads: That would really surprise me. A holistic approach, taking social factors into account and a broad definition of recovery seem more like the things the researchers want the patients to say. I would guess that patients...

Thanks, just one clarification: the psychosomatic theories of diabetes were rather marginal and noninfluential as far as we can tell. We provide an overview of psychosomatic explanations and go look for them, because that's what our series of articles focuses on, but this doesn't always mean...

New article on psychosomatic theories on diabetes This blog post looks at psychosomatic theories of diabetes, from Walter Cannon’s concept of ‘emotional glycosuria’ to the myth of the diabetic personality. We will discuss the problems with the term ‘brittle diabetes’ and the importance of...

Moved from this thread: Swiss Re: Expert Forum on secondary COVID-19 impacts Feb 2021 I sometimes try to follow Sharpe's reasoning. Perhaps he meant that Monbiot shouldn't have highlighted that long covid might result in lifelong disability because that remains uncertain at this point and it...

Can't remember, but it was something like that, much lower than common estimates for ME/CFS.

If I recall correctly, the study identified cases based on GP's records so if the GP's didn't diagnose people with ME/CFS, patients would have been overlooked. So the 0.2% is likely a low estimate.

Interesting study. Unfortunate that the Japanese findings could not be confirmed.

If only they had interviewed a patient with severe ME/CFS who tried GET/CBT only to get worse afterwards. What a different episode it would have been.

In Belgium, the government plans to start vaccinating people younger than 65. Priority is given to a large group of people with health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, chronic kidney disease etc. This group consists of approximately 1,2-1,5 million people or 10% of the population in...

Cool, thanks for sharing. I like this version of John Prine's Angel from Montgomery the most.