A book review from 1965.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/572067
Male doctor about woman patient.
We tried all possible remedies.
There is no ongoing pathology.
Referred to me by other specialists.
Other doctors see them as 'problem patients'.
Mustn't be...
Have set this up on a thread on it's own (was previously on https://www.s4me.info/threads/mus-services-in-uk-and-other-mus-related-issues.8318/ )
University of Sheffield.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds/mus/info...
Thread split from
“Graded exercise therapy: Chronic fatigue syndrome” by The HANDI Working Group (2019)
Who comprise the HANDI group and what are their interests.
Interesting re timing of this piece
Michael Sharpe breaks his retirement promise on ME/CFS and returns with this monstrosity, a blog for the BMJ (British Medical Journal)
He says ME/CFS is an illness but not a disease...
Mind, Medicine and Morals: A Tale of Two Illnesses...
I thought it would be helpful to present in an organised form links to these papers, mentioned on another thread, which are fundamental to an understanding of the BPS approach to ME, and which should be read by those wanting an understanding of how we got to where we are. The papers usually...
When chronic fatigue syndrome leads to mutism
For more on the conference see this thread:
https://www.s4me.info/threads/me-cfs-contributions-at-royal-college-of-paediatrics-and-child-health-conference-may-2019.9555/
New York Times article about Stanford research published in Nature and led by Mike Snyder whose team is also helping Ron Davis with multiomics. This study was a very long longitudinal study to capture changes in the body over time, before diseases were diagnosed. Some changes led to early...
Copied from the New Zealand thread
This is the paper she is referring to: The pathway from glandular fever to chronic fatigue syndrome: can the cognitive behavioural model provide the map?
I think the paper is worth a discussion because it is one of the few papers that actually tried to test...
Jim Al-khalili’s subject in his ‘The Life Scientific’ programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, February 14, was Professor Sir Simon Wessely.
I thought given the new research into ME and Gulf War Illness this would be of interest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dnr3g
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Gulf War Syndrome. So...
bbc radio
catastrophising
cortisol
gulf war illness
gwi
harassment
history
john maddox prize
long covid
mental health policy
myalgic encephalomyelitis
pace trial
psychosomaticmedicine
quotes
royal society of medicine
video
wessely
I saw this article (which is mostly about antidepressants) on the Human Givens Institute and thought it worth sharing as it is written by a psychotherapist...
The rest of this article is behind a paywall, so I don’t know if ME gets a mention... (as some people persist in lumping it in this broad category).
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232240-100-mystery-illnesses-reveal-the-power-of-our-minds-to-influence-health/
Review on Central Sensitisation by the Belgian Research team of Nijs et al.
Source: https://dtb.bmj.com/content/early/2019/03/11/dtb.2018.000035
Does anyone have access to the paper?
My aim on this thread is to share the results of my digging into this question over the last couple of days. I have found several papers with very different figures and will post them in a series of posts here.
The 52% claim:
The UK document, Guidance for commissioners of services for people...
Persistent Physical Symptoms
Multidisciplinary Challenges , Saturday 15th June - Tuesday 18th June 2019
full details here:
https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-medical-sciences/summerschools/persistent-physical-symptoms/
also at that link
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The Summer School will take place in advance of...
As increasingly pw ME/CFS are being referred through IAPT for treatment as MUS I thought I'd set up a separate thread from the ME/CFS Services in UK.
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Primary Care Intervention
University of Sheffield
Subject Experts
Professor Peter White is Professor of...
Ugh.
Have you seen this new piece @dave30th ?
"Conclusions
mFND patients have distinct demographic characteristics compared with psychiatric controls. Experiences of abuse appear to be equally prevalent across psychiatric patient groups. This study establishes the socio-demographic and life...
Preview (abstract only) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330901648_The_'Cognitive_Behavioural_Model'_of_Chronic_Fatigue_Syndrome_Critique_of_a_Flawed_Model
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