psychosomatic medicine

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/

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...

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?fbclid=IwAR3FKACSMcqW7C1yRfdrJXZeQDzrO4Vnmn7ryTKaLag-JCH-GHDw8PqbYXc&pid=diva2:1370212&dswid=-8061 Fulltext: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1370212/FULLTEXT01.pdf Press release : "Tron på sig själv är vägen tillbaka till arbete?" ("Belief...

I thought it might be of use to collect news regarding functional disorders in one place, to help keeping an overview of the lobbyism taking place. In June 2020 you can sign up in Denmark to a seminar that will prepare you to become an "ambassador" in your municipality for functional disorders...

Chronic fatigue syndrome is mentioned as one of the keywords so I thought I would post it in this forum https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763419309868

This post and the following ones have been moved from this thread. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-data-set/submit-data-to-the-iapt-data-set-v2.0---from-1-april-2020 Submitting IAPT v2.0 data...

https://www.babcp.com/Conferences/Spring.aspx 16th April Workshop Two Persistent (Medically Unexplained) Physical Symptoms: A Scientist Practitioner Approach Trudie Chalder, King’s College London and David McCormack, Queen’s University Belfast...

NHS Clinical Networks Non-Dementia Pathways Guidance from the London Dementia Clinical Networks January 2020 (Version 2) PDF: https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/07/Final-non-dementia-pathways-V2.pdf Selected extracts: The aim of this document is to provide...

Psychosomatic therapy for patients frequently attending primary care with medically unexplained symptoms, the CORPUS trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial Open access, published Dec 2019 Trial status The protocol version number and date: version 10, 8 May 2018. Patient...

Note: There is also a members only thread discussing Reddit here Reddit thread on r/philosophy on the ethical questions involved in ME/CFS debate

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666354619300298

Open access to PDF, https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/1/4 Note: Fukuda selection criteria. ETA: I was conflicted whether this should go in the Biomedical or the Psychosocial sub-forum as, to my mind, there are elements of both about it.

Full title: A Framework for Understanding the Role of Psychological Processes in Disease Development, Maintenance, and Treatment: The 3P-Disease Model Open access, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02498/full

Full title: The longitudinal effects of seated isometric yoga on blood biomarkers, autonomic functions, and psychological parameters of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study Open access, https://bpsmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13030-019-0168-x

Paywall, https://www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(19)30736-X/fulltext Not available via Scihub at time of posting

Full title: Effects of attachment-based compassion therapy (ABCT) on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and low-grade inflammation among fibromyalgia patients: A randomized controlled trial Open access, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52260-z

I thought it might be useful to get an overview of medical guidelines on ME/CFS that have been influenced by the Cochrane review on graded exercise therapy (GET). I’m mostly interested in official government positions or influential medical authorities that have referred to the Cochrane review...

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/tom-ingman(a757866b-0975-4c36-bf27-bdb480bd1e30).html (can't find any more details on this) see also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26846611 eta: 2nd tweet seems to have been deleted (following retweet by DT) here's a screen shot of the other one

I've started this thread for discussions regarding the methodological issues and efficacy of the IAPT treatment model. In particular the move to treat 'CFS/ME' as a MUS that can be referred for IAPT CBT/GET treatment is now highly relevant to the ME/CFS NICE guideline.