michael sharpe

Abstract Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) sometimes known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or encephalopathy (ME) has long been a controversial topic. This year has seen the publication of a report from an independent working party set up by the UK Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to make recommendations...

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Summary Background Older people admitted to hospital in an emergency often have prolonged inpatient stays that worsen their outcomes, increase health-care costs, and reduce bed availability. Growing evidence suggests that the biopsychosocial complexity of their problems, which include cognitive...

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...

Note: There are two services in Oxfordshire dedicated to help patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): the OUH ME/CFS Service - and the Oxford Health ME/CFS Service. Website updated Dec 2021 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Service...

Anomalies in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis Peter White, Susan Abbey, Brian Angus, Harriet A Ball, Dedra S Buchwald, Christine Burness, Alan J Carson, Trudie Chalder, Daniel J Clauw, Jan...

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/conferences/detail/2023/05/10/default-calendar/faculty-of-liaison-psychiatry-conference-2023

Thought it could be helpful to have an own thread on EURONET-SOMA. From the blurb: Persistent somatic symptoms are common and complex phenomena which pose major challenges to psychosomatics and many other medical specialties across Europe. [...] Chronic courses of disorders are common and...

very long piece (I've only skimmed through it). https://newrepublic.com/article/168965/might-long-covid-wrong eta: (from Esther12) Archive link that avoids giving them clicks: https://archive.vn/L471V

full article here https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/news/article.aspx?id=1826&returnurl=/news/archive.aspx&pi=0

https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/c63f76b7-615c-4a60-9f38-5ab81941952a/ anyone at Oxford who could record this?

Blog posts on the blog called Healthcare Hubris Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? by Jo Hunt part 1 part 2 Covers some of the interactions between Wessely, Aylward and White and the DWP in the early 1990's based on archive material obtained using FOI by Valerie Eliot Smith. Link to...

"The news article on medical gaslighting raises the important point that doctors should always accept patient concerns about symptoms and never dismiss them as imaginary.1 But …" Paywalled, https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2236 This seems to be a published rapid response to a BMJ News...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/evidence-based-care-for-people-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-myalgic-encephalomyelitis(536398c9-3ebe-4faf-b3bc-e01257e82c65).html Abstract (Paragraphs mine for legibility) Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), sometimes referred to as myalgic...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/30/withdrawal-planned-guidance-me-leaves-patients-distraught Natalie Grover seems to be getting nearer to understanding the problem, even if still a little way away. Some reasonable quotes from me. Some from Sharpe and Chalder as well.

This post is copied and some posts discussing the article moved from this thread. BMJ feature: Chronic fatigue syndrome and long covid: moving beyond the controversy Long article, which starts with fun stuff like: “I submitted the first positive trial of cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT] as...

6th Annual Scientific Conference of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM 2018) incl. several CFS studies via Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399914001883?via%3Dihub (was this data ever released?)