#medicallyunexplainedsymptoms — Public Fediverse posts

Pleased to be able to support David Tuller DrPH to help him continue his important work on ME, #MECFS , #longCovid &
" #MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms "

He has particularly focused on (bio)psychosocial
claims/researchers:we've learned they need to be watched closely
https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302

@mecfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid

Trial by Error: Reporting on ME, #MECFS, long Covid, and "#MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms", Fall 2023

https://shorturl.at/JTY49

A new crowdfunding via Berkeley to secure David Tuller's academic position till June 2024. The aim is to raise $65,000 by November 30 & approximately 30% of that goal has been reached. There is still a lot of important work to do & to report on, for instance with the entrance of #LongCovid

@longcovid @mecfs #CFS #PwME #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MUS

David Tuller DrPH:
My Talk at Cambridge Last October on "Epidemiological Sleight-of-Hand: The Troubling Case of '#MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms".

https://tinyurl.com/2ahwcdfk

"Whatever these conditions are called, it has been my observation investigators who focus on psycho-behavioral treatments for them routinely adopt highly problematic and sometimes even fraudulent practices in their clinical trials & epidemiological research.”

#MUS #FND #Fibromyalgia @mecfs

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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This quote is from the preprint of "The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to #MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis & #ChronicFatigueSyndrome".

A very similar quote is in the abstract of the version that has just been published version.
https://www.opastpublishers.com/peer-review/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-psychosomatic-approach-to-medically-unexplained-symptoms-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-chronic--4899.html

Dr David Marks is an eminent academic psychologist who interestingly is from outside the ME community.
It's great to have somebody like him writing this in the published literature.

@mecfs #MEcfs #CFS

Many #pwME will already be aware of much that is written in #DavidFMarks’ paper ”The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to #MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #ChronicFatigueSyndrome” published in “Archives of Epidemiology & Public Health Research”, 26.12.2022.

#MUS #MECFS

Link to pdf

https://www.opastpublishers.com/open-access-articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-psychosomatic-approach-to-medically-unexplained-symptoms-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-chronic-.pdf

New:
"The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Approach to #MedicallyUnexplainedSymptoms, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

Free full text:
https://www.opastpublishers.com/peer-review/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-psychosomatic-approach-to-medically-unexplained-symptoms-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-and-chronic--4899.html

Great to see an eminent academic psychologist from outside the ME community, Dr David Marks, write a detailed review (with 283 references) like this

#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #MUS #MedicallyUnexplained