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This thread has been split from a thread discussing a book about Ron Davis: The Puzzle Solver by Tracie White I've been following ME/CFS research and news and reading forums for over 25 years. I think that the UK has played a much bigger part internationally in psychologising the condition and...

Full title: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Organic Disease or Psychosomatic Illness? A Re-Examination of the Royal Free Epidemic of 1955 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33375343/

Initially, I intended to write this as a response in another post, but I think it deserves its own post now. These thoughts have followed me for quite some time. I'd be interested in reading what your view on this is. I often bring this up because I can't concur with this kind of logic as I...

Merged thread: 'Stock photos are terrible at depicting illness' http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/11/stock_photos_are_terrible_at_depicting_mental_and_physical_illness.html They are particularly deplorable for ME... More threads on this topic Psychosocial...

https://www.indjsp.org/text.asp?2020/36/5/189/297158 I thought this was an interesting/poignant statistic and quote. I couldn't fit it all in the title.

Thought this was an interesting editorial. It's from 2004 but is still relevant. Source: http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC351829&blobtype=pdf

We are all familiar with the two McEvedy and Beard papers which appeared in the January !970 BMJ. Less familiar is the third paper published elsewhere in 1973. There has been little attention paid to the Editorial which accompanied the papers. It does little credit to the journal or its editor...

Thought this might be of interest. It's long. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12418

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02455-0

Found by @DigitalDrifter who asked me to post it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401495/?page=1 Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Nov-Dec 1996 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Summary of a Report of a Joint Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists...

I realise that this is hardly news but thought it worth a reread as Chalder and Butler in a 1989 MEA newsletter considered it one of the two papers that should be read for an understanding of their approach. The other was the better known 1988 study by Straus. Normal muscle strength and...

I'm part way through watching this (about 20mins in) as it is now available in full on Youtube. I think it's the formerly titled 'What about ME?' film from 2016, but I'm not sure. Unfortunately it starts (and ends) with Dr Myhills conflict with the GMC, and her views on treatment for CFS, and...

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The WHO classified ME as neurological in 1969 but 80% of doctors still believe its psychosomatic [1]. Many doctors still don't know that over the last 35 years there have been over 9000 scientific publications that compared people with the illness to healthy people and they find a whole variety...

Brain scanning, 19th century style! https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882 Also notably, Angelo Mosso wrote a textbook on fatigue (La fatica) in 1891, the ideas of which have been repeatedly (re)"discovered" over the decades since.

Curiosity value... AD, because it was printed in 1632 and there was no CE then

Moderator note: This post has been copied and subsequent posts moved from this thread: Concerns about craniocervical instability surgery in ME/CFS _________________________________ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a such a vague diagnosis that it can cover many things since fatigue is such a common...

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I wasn't sure where to post this.

Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2019/09000/Neurasthenia__Modern_Malady_or_Historical_Relic_.7.aspx Sci hub, not available