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Triggers and Clinical Presentations of Functional Neurological Disorders: Lessons from World War 1, 2020, Linden

Discussion in 'Other psychosomatic news and research' started by Andy, May 27, 2020.

  1. Andy

    Andy Committee Member

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    Open access, https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/507698
     
  2. rvallee

    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    A full century after the first lines of debate, the very same lines are still being debated. Exactly as is, without change or progress. It's hard to dispute that when the same people are literally bringing up the exact same debate from a full century ago as being relevant to the debate happening today. Largely on account of being on exactly the same issues, stuck in an endless circle of pointlessness. Which is odd because science is not supposed to be debating things, it's supposed to apply a rigorous process and deal only with objectively verifiable things. Debate can occur but it is peripheral to the work that actually counts.

    There is no comparable failure in any other field of science. The outcome is completely disastrous. Plus my own medical file, not an historical archive, is full of mistakes, opinions and things I did not even say or weren't even actually discussed and missing many things. So I would not exactly vouch for the accuracy of historical accounts from a century ago.

    Maybe, just maybe, medicine is not the place for philosophical debate among people with no stake in the matter and who constantly display disregard for the basics of science and even more disregard for the lives they lay waste to. Because the consequences are in real lives. Since the debate started, tens of millions of lives were wasted on this philosophical circle jerk. Lives who did not consent to being wasted. Which makes it all grotesquely criminal to continue with this absurd death-and-suffering cult.
     
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    are very likely to be percussive injuries. The wonder is that anyone survived the bombardments of the first world war without brain damage when their only protection was a tin helmet.
     
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    so paralysis and speech disturbances were greater among soldiers? and these were usually from acute events? Hm. just a wild guess, but maybe physical injuries from the acute event during war caused these problems?
     
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    there has been more recent research into the effects of explosions in causing low level inflammation of the brain ie shellshock another politically motivated choice of diagnosis cant have soldiers being medically exempted from duty if their still capable of being cannon fodder . the research I wanted to mention was done on police swat teams who where often using small level explosions to gain entry . unfortunately cant remember any more at this time other than repeated exposure to shockwaves causes some damage gee who knew .
     
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    So amazing they found the MRI and PET scans of those patients 100 years ago!
     

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