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Full title: Evaluation of Tools to Assess Symptoms and Symptom Severity in Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis Abstract A substantial portion of patients presenting to healthcare settings exhibit physical symptoms lacking clear...

Hi all, I'd like to share with you a new theoretical piece I've written with Tony Ward, and our terrific PhD student, Sam Clack (pdf attached). It is a pretty dense piece, about what symptoms are in psychiatry, and not of general relevance to MECFS. But I'd love your input on the bit I've...

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-020-05118-z

Posting this from Wessely in a 2009 interview, because it shows that he clearly understands the importance of double-blinding subjective outcome measures and controlling for the placebo effect, and is happy to (selectively) invoke this standard when it suits him to further his psychosocial...

I thought this was in interesting article so I thought I'd share it here: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/25/the-challenge-of-chronic-lyme/ PS. I'm not looking for a debate on Lyme. Please don't ask me any questions. I don't know enough about it.