psychosomatic medicine

Merged thread Why Attributing 'Type A' Personalities to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Needs to Stop "I recently had an experience with a relative that caught me off guard. In passing, she mentioned reading somewhere that it’s mostly “type A” individuals who develop ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis)...

"It is a sad irony that Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing, who made such important contributions to public health through her advocacy of sanitation, statistics, and common sense, should also be remembered as history's most famous invalid and possibly as its most...

Nature published an article on January 3rd, "A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome research " https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08965-0 Nature has now published a response to this from Professor Michael Sharpe, Professor Trudie Chalder & Dr Jon Stone, titled "Don't reject evidence...

An in-depth analysis of five hallmark studies of the Dutch Expertise Center for Chronic Fatigue (NKCV) confirms that cognitive behavorial therapy combined with a graded activity protocol (CBT+) has no objective positive effect on the (health) status of patients diganosed with chronic fatigue...

This was highlighted on @Tom Kindlon 's Facebook page. Delightful presentation from just under a year ago from King's Health Partners (https://www.kingshealthpartners.org/), explaining how, among other conditions, CFS is a MUS (or Persistent Physical Symptoms condition, the term us patients...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967779/ I'm sure I've discussed this paper previously, but seeing others complaining recently about how bad the 1996 CFS report was made this line stand it. Is it publicly acknowledged Wessely took a lead with that? That was before my time, but...

Abstract OBJECTIVES: Fatigue is a prevalent and debilitating symptom, preceded by an acute infectious episode in some patients. This systematic review aimed to identify risk factors for the development of persistent fatigue after an acute infection, to develop an evidence-based working model of...

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(17)30841-3/pdf posted by @Sly Saint in another thread, so it's getting it's own thread here.

You may have heard of it? At the other place, some of us wrote a word or two about it. I thought it might be good to have a thread for PACE chats, or for new people to ask questions, that didn't necessarily relate to important new papers, or anything that warranted a new thread. I could post...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2015.1035519 Coping with chronic fatigue syndrome: a review and synthesis of qualitative studies Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 2015 Vol. 3, No. 3, 173–188, Irma Pinxsterhuisa,b*, Elin B. Stranda and Unni Sveenc,d a Division of Medicine, Oslo...

The Most Popular Terms for Medically Unexplained Symptoms: The Views of CFS Patients Federica Picariello, Sheila Ali, Rona Moss-Morris, Trudie Chalder February 28, 2015 Journal of Psychosomatic Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.02.013 Highlights We assess the top...

Critical Analysis of Psychological Illness Explanations The only certainty Is uncertainty: Doctors should admit when they don't have an answer Frances, A 2013 link to article This article argues that medical professionals are overconfident about their diagnostic abilities, and fail to...

Can positivity cure any disease? http://anilvanderzee.com/can-positivity-cure-any-disease/