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This looks sympathetic, though I haven't read it through. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08870446.2021.1901900 Psychology & Health. 2021 Apr 19;1-17. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1901900. Online ahead of print. What is it like to live with medically unexplained physical symptoms...

Full title: Cognitive and emotional variables predicting treatment outcome of cognitive behavior therapies for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: A meta-analysis Highlights • A meta-analysis of cognitive-emotional predictors of the outcome of CBT for MUS. • Comorbid mood and anxiety...

Tweets from Katherine Cheston "I'm presenting a paper entitled 'Shame, stigma and the shadows of contested, ‘unexplained’ illness' this Thursday at the @NNMHRmed Congress (Panel 10, 'Shame and Silences', 14.30-16.00). Registration is free & all are welcome! nnmhr2021.org" "I'll discuss these...

Abstract Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are persistent bodily symptoms without known pathology. An unofficial term has recently emerged in Taiwan to accommodate MUS: autonomic imbalance (AI). AI literally refers to disturbances of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that innervates vital...

https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/21/1/13 This is barely worth posting, but I read it. It's so basic it felt like it was written for children - is that because it's in a journal for doctors rather than researchers? So many strong assertions ("The first and most important step is...

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/research/centres/ctru/mss3 I don't see a thread on this. The list of contributors imply a very expensive price tag for doing copy-paste research that's been done many times before. No idea if ME is an exclusion criteria, very few details. Obviously not a...

Full title: A Qualitative Study of the Views of Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms on The BodyMind Approach®: Employing Embodied Methods and Arts Practices for Self-Management Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554566/full

I posted this on another thread NHS site on MUS: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/medically-unexplained-symptoms/ NICE: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=medically+unexplained+symptoms one listing at last link...

Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/9000/Somatosensory_illusions_elicited_by_sham.98487.aspx Sci hub, no access.

Paywall, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-and-cognitive-psychotherapy/article/medically-unexplained-symptoms-in-children-an-experimental-investigation-of-the-impact-of-internet-searching-on-parental-responses/68F0CD5ACD321F1794551D15B16604CE Sci hub...

Full title: Ethical Psychotherapeutic Management of Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms: The Risk of Misdiagnosis and Harm Diane O'Leary and Keith Geraghty https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198817338.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198817338-e-72 Edited to break...

Full title: BMC family practice integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised trial [Worth noting that the intended study title was probably "Integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised...

Trudie Chalder & Claire Willis (2017) “Lumping” and “splitting” medically unexplained symptoms: is there a role for a transdiagnostic approach?, Journal of Mental Health, 26:3, 187-191, DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2017.1322187 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638237.2017.1322187 (Open...

My bolding https://thepolyphony.org/2020/09/29/shame-stigma-and-unexplained-symptoms/

Author list: Maria Kleinstäuber Christine Allwang Josef Bailer Matthias Berking Christian Brünahl Maja Erkic Harald Gitzen Mario Gollwitzer Japhia-Marie Gottschalk Jens Heider Andrea Hermann Claas Lahmann Bernd Löwe Alexandra Martin Jörn Rauk Annette Schröder Johannes Schwabe Jeanine Schwar...

Optimising engagement and outcomes for patients with Functional/Medically Unexplained Symptoms This conference will be delivered on Zoom. This event has been approved by The British Psychological Society for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by the Royal College of...

Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2020.1810513 Sci hub, (PDF) https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/10410236.2020.1810513

Improving teaching about medically unexplained symptoms for newly qualified doctors in the UK: findings from a questionnaire survey and expert workshop https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/4/e014720 I picked up on this from article in this thread...

More interesting stuff from Goodelf, a two part article on MUS https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse-2/ Part 1: The PCPCS – a ‘One Door’ Approach to MUS By Goodelf https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse/ Part 2: One Door, One...