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What Works in Mindfulness Interventions for Medically Unexplained Symptoms? A Systematic Review Billones, Saligan Note: Dr Saligan is involved in the NIH study with Dr Nath Link to paper here Abstract Background/Purpose: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been used in medically...

RC Psych (Royal College of Psychiatrists) Chronic fatigue syndrome: helping your child to get better (note: Disclaimer This is information, not advice. Please read our disclaimer.)...

Yeah, I'm not going to worry about the profession getting justice.. Paywall, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312720940405 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0306312720940405

London School of Paediatrics - HEE NHS UK (I skipped the case examples) youtube generated transcript: pt1

Dutch researchers involved, what could possibly go wrong.... https://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/research/mental-health/projects/mnyes/ The Steering Group (which looks very over-balanced in favour of 'professionals') And their current survey...

I just stumbled on a conversation on LinkedIn with professor in psychosomatic medicine Judith Rosmalen where she states that MUS is more common in people with low intelligence. (see screenshot) https://bit.ly/38611iK She apparently studied the subject and I would love to know what you guys...

David Tuller: Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms https://www.virology.ws/2020/06/17/trial-by-error-trio-of-trials-shows-limits-of-cbt-for-medically-unexplained-symptoms/

A lot of this is about medically unexplained symptoms. I haven't read it and don't think I will but perhaps there's somebody, perhaps from a philosophical background, who might find it of interest. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41239-5_4 Rethinking Causality, Complexity...

Webcast Persistent (Medically Unexplained) Physical Symptoms: A Scientist Practitioner Approach Monday 8th June 10.00 – 15.30 Trudie Chalder, King’s College London and David McCormack, Queen’s University Belfast...

This is a very interesting write up in the link below and worth taking time to read if able. Medical Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) proponents - Wesseley and Sharpe two of them - have 'sold' their MUS strategy to doctors, healthcare workers, policy makers and commissioners by telling them that the...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-25194-001

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030698772030164X

Read more, and donate, at https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/20159

https://www.virology.ws/2020/04/08/trial-by-error-a-post-about-lupus-and-mus-not-covid/

"The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness" author on the only recourse for ailing women who are being ignored https://www.salon.com/2020/04/07/ladys-handbook-for-her-mysterious-illness-sarah-ramey-book/

Persistent Physical Symptoms Research and Treatment Unit - Kings College London; South London and Maudsley NHS Trust for the rogues gallery of the 50 members of this team see https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/persistent-physical-symptoms-research-and-treatment-unit-1

Moved from this thread Blog on current state of IAPT https://survivingwork.org/after-quarantine/

Full title: Coexistence of cerebral hypometabolism and neuroinflammation in the thalamo-limbic-brainstem region in young women with functional somatic syndrome Note: Due to vague selection criteria this may, or may not, be an investigation into ME. Open access...

Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation by Christopher Eccleston Oxford University Press 2015 E-book: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198727903.001.0001/acprof-9780198727903 Chapter 6 about fatigue deals with "chronic fatigue" as identical with "Chronic...

Full title: Medically explained symptoms: A mixed methods study of diagnostic, symptom and support experiences of patients with lupus and related systemic autoimmune diseases Authors: Melanie Sloan et al. (UK universities) Link...