psychosomatic medicine

  1. Esther12

    New draft NICE guidelines for chronic pain emphasises exercise, CBT and acupuncture over medication

    http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/gps-should-not-prescribe-opioids-for-chronic-pain-says-nice/20041262.article I've not been impressed by the evidence that painkillers improve outcomes over the long-term for chronic pain, but I also think it's important that it's patients themselves who get to...
    • Esther12
    • Thread
    • acupuncture bps cbt chronic pain exercise guidelines nice pain psychosomatic medicine
    • Replies: 175
    • Forum: Other guidelines
  2. M

    What Works in Mindfulness Interventions for Medically Unexplained Symptoms? A Systematic Review (2020)Billones and Saligan

    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...
  3. rvallee

    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    In the coming months, the BPS brigades will attempt to promote their alternative model to people suffering from post-COVID-19 illness. There will be papers and editorials, but also less formal attempts at promoting various treatment approaches and a "different" way to think about long COVID...
  4. Cheshire

    Cochrane Database Syst Review - Psychosocial interventions for conversion and dissociative disorders in adults (2020) Ganslv et al.

    The abstract is very long (see below) so I will highlight the conclusion: Abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32681745/ Am I wrong, or are scandinavian psychologists more and more critical of the doxa? Edit: paragraph breaks are mine.
  5. Andy

    Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’, 2020, Rasmussen

    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
  6. Sly Saint

    Patients’ experiences with fluctuations in persistent physical symptoms: a qualitative study - Barends et al July 2020

    https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/7/e035833.info eta:
  7. Trish

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Summary of a Report of a Joint Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists and GP's, 1996, Simon Wessely

    Found by @DigitalDrifter who asked me to post it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401495/?page=1 Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Nov-Dec 1996 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Summary of a Report of a Joint Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Psychiatrists...
  8. C

    Normal muscle strength and fatiguability in patients with effort syndromes, 1988, Stokes at al

    I realise that this is hardly news but thought it worth a reread as Chalder and Butler in a 1989 MEA newsletter considered it one of the two papers that should be read for an understanding of their approach. The other was the better known 1988 study by Straus. Normal muscle strength and...
    • chrisb
    • Thread
    • 1988 cbt effort syndromes get history mark edwards me/cfs paper psychosomatic medicine stokes
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: Historical Documents
  9. Esther12

    Chapter on Chronic Fatigue, Sharpe, in Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

    I don't know if I've read that before. I found some of it available on Amazon, so copied over the images I could get there. Sometimes different people can access different pages [edit - sorry for going OT with this, the chapter was longer than I expected]. I couldn't access p 384...
  10. Sly Saint

    Medically Unexplained Symptoms and PEM (Paediatric Emergency Medicine) presentations - Dr Armstrong - 11 Jun 2020

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

    UK: Priority Setting Partnership: Medically Not Yet Explained Symptoms - 10 top priorities published July 2022

    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...
  12. Grigor

    Intelligence is negatively associated with the number of functional somatic symptoms, 2009, Kingma et al

    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...
  13. MSEsperanza

    Trial By Error: Trio of Trials Shows Limits of CBT for Medically Unexplained Symptoms

    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/
  14. Hoopoe

    The association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and subsequent development of functional somatic and visceral pain syndromes, 2020, Chandan

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30136-X/fulltext
  15. cassava7

    The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to Sharpe and Greco, 2020, Lubet & Tuller

    Mod note: The reply by Lubet and Tuller was in response to an article by Sharpe and Greco, discussed here: Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and Morals: A Tale of Two Illnesses (2019) BMJ blog - and published responses By Steven Lubet & David Tuller. Abstract: Link...
  16. Andy

    The Science Fiction of Medical Quackery: Ray Bradbury's “Skeleton”, 2020, Smith and Stone

    Jon Stone writing disapprovingly about quackery - let's just savour the irony.. Paywall (no abstract), https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/head.13852 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/head.13852
  17. Sly Saint

    Cognitive behavioural therapy for adults with dissociative seizures (CODES): a ... multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2020) Goldstein, Chalder

    CODEs study group ProfLaura HGoldsteinPhDaEmily JRobinsonMScbgJohn D CMellersMRCPsychhProfJonStonePhDiProfAlanCarsonMDiProfMarkusReuberPhDjNickMedfordPhDhProfPaulMcCronePhDcJoannaMurrayBAdProfMark...
  18. Kalliope

    Lightning Process study in Norway - Given Ethics Approval February 2022

    From today's morning news on NRK P2-radio A new Norwegian study will investigate the treatment Lightning Process; a method in stress treatment and mental techniques. The study will be led by psychology professor Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair from the Norwegian University of Science and...
  19. Dolphin

    CBT combined with music therapy for chronic fatigue following Epstein-Barr virus infection in adolescents: a feasibility study, 2020, Wyller et al

    Free full text: https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000620.abstract
  20. Andy

    The Arc de Siècle: functional neurological disorder during the ‘forgotten’ years of the 20th century, 2020, Stone et al

    Jon Stone cross referencing himself again. Paywall, https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa037/5816705 Not available via Sci hub at time of posting.
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