This is from Aug. 15th 2018 and as far as I know not shared here already. Not sure if studies on ME patients are included in the review, but thought it was of interest nevertheless.
E-Health interventions for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions...
Small sample size but strengths of the study include using medication-free first-episode major depression and an illness control group (bipolar disorder).
Full text at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0183-x
Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101
Posted August 12, 2018 by Hilda Bastian in Evidence, Health
http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2018/08/12/yoga-depression-clinical-trial-critique-101/
Not specifically about ME, but I thought it might be of interest to some people who are...
Looks like this is supportive of Wessely's attempts to get change, as written about by @Hole Ousia: https://www.s4me.info/threads/simon-wessely-didnt-want-his-e-mail-on-a-blog-here-it-is-on-hole-ousia.5001/
Also seems relevant to claims that NICE should operate entirely independently of...
from Physician's First Watch June 13, 2018
Use of Common Drugs with Depression as Side Effect Increasing
By Kelly Young
Edited by
- Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Use of common drugs with depression as a possible side effect is increasing -- and the more of these drugs patients take...
I thought this was generally interesting, shedding some light, as it does, on how ketamine and psychedelics affect the brain structurally, and suggesting the possibility of new drugs for depression and anxiety based on these chemicals.
Ketamine was also suggested and tried as a treatment for ME...
The article, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-national-trial-eeg-brain-patients.amp
The paper, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2678040
Open access at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322727729_Effects_of_anti-inflammatory_drugs_on_the_expression_of_tryptophan-metabolism_genes_by_human_macrophages
The work was done in mice. The method used to modulate dopamine levels - optogenetics - was new to me, and fascinating. The researchers think their work has relevance to depression and PTSD.
Should low dopamine levels prove to be relevant in ME, some of the results from the study may also...
Sorry for the long post. Translation by Google and me. Mistakes and bold/italics by me.
http://www.zeit.de/news/2018-03/27/drei-todesfaelle-bornavirus-fuer-menschen-doch-gefaehrlich-180327-99-652639
Berlin/Greifswald-Riems (dpa)
Three patients in Germany have died as a result of a viral...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5438153/Years-depression-linked-brain-inflammation.html
Not a new observation by any means but this is the first time I've seen measures of neuroinflammation quantified and correlated with duration.
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