5 Relaxation Techniques For Stress And Anxiety
Relaxation techniques that are scientifically proven include progressive relaxation, autogenic training, meditation and cognitive-behavioural therapy. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Anxiety Mindfulness Source Type: blogs
Global Digital Health 100 – The Medical Futurist ’ s Top Choices in 2022
We first published the list of the Top 100 Digital Health Companies in 2017, highlighting the mindblowing growth the sector registered in the previous year. “Global digital health investments totalled more than 8 billion USD in 2016” – we wrote. Looking at the latest data, we better keep our seatbelts fastened: this figure was USD 57.2 billion in 2021, with a year-on-year growth of 79%.
Digital health is booming, with dozens, hundreds of startups and scale-ups entering the realm each year. While their spectacular promises are loud, failure is silent – unless it happens to one of the tech giants ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF bioprinting digital health Healthcare wearables top 100 telemedicine digital health companies remote care digital therapeutics Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views
By David Tuller, DrPH Three Norwegian researchers recently published an attack on critics of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for ME. The article, called “Facts and Myths about ME,” was published by the news organization Aftenposten. The authors, from the Scandinavian arm of the CBT/GET ideological brigades, asserted that “the cause […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized norway Steinkopf wyller Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views
By David Tuller, DrPH [*See correction in third paragraph] Three Norwegian researchers recently published an attack on critics of cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as treatments for ME. The article, called “Facts and Myths about ME,” was published by the news organization Aftenposten. The authors, from the Scandinavian arm of the CBT/GET ideological … Trial By Error: Norwegian CBT/GET Ideologues Take Aim at Critics Who Reject Their Views Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS norway Steinkopf wyller Source Type: blogs
Bookwork Entry 10 – Frustration and Setbacks Plus Unfathomable Optimism
A month has passed since I last updated my journal. I ' m afraid progress has been in short supply, but understanding my obstacles and deciding how to surmount them has made this writing process invaluable. Reach out to me on Facebook or Twitter if you ' ve got something to say about what I ' ve written.(Mobile browsers only display the first page. Please view the text entry after the embedded PDF if you don’t wish to download it.) 25 OCTOBER 2022BOOKWORK 10: It’s been a month since I last checked in. How have I been doing? The website project has come to a stop. I need to fiddle with some settings with my...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Bookwork Depression Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Research From GET/CBT Ideological Brigades Shows No Improvements in Work Status
By David Tuller, DrPH Last year, Mark Vink, a Dutch physician with ME/CFS, and Friso Vink-Niese, an independent researcher, published a review of occupational outcomes among ME/CFS patients after treatment with either graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The results were not pretty. When viewed specifically through the perspective of employment status, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 30, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT employment GET occupational status PACE Source Type: blogs
Experiment with Your Coping Strategies for Better Results
Earlier this year, I admitted to myself that my current coping strategies weren’tfighting off my depression as effectively as they were before. Had they simply stopped working, or had something fundamental changed inside of me? The answer was complicated.Obviously, my coping strategies weren’t working since I spent more than half of the days each week struggling to keep my spirits up, but for the longest time, I was too sick to do anything about it. I just limped along waiting to get better. The problem with that plan was that I wasn’t getting better. My depression was fueled by chronic illness. Waiting t...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Another CBT/GET Marketing Document Masquerading as Research from Professor Chalder
By David Tuller, DrPH It’s another month, and here’s another worthless paper from Trudie Chalder, King’s College London’s factually and statistically challenged professor of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). In her desperate effort to prove that the treatment paradigm for ME/CFS combining CBT and graded exercise therapy (GET) is evidence-based, she has now published a paper […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chalder Source Type: blogs
Debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory yet not throwing out the antidepressant baby with the bathwater
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Andrew M McIntosh is Professor of Biological Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, and Cathryn Lewis is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics at King’s College London.
To Learn More:
Studies find growing evidence linking weight, physical activity, neuroplasticity and depression
Computer-assisted cognitive behavior therapy (CCBT) may outperform Treatment as Usual (TAU) in helping patients reduce depression, improve remission rates
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) apps may help you more than sleeping pills
Five reasons the future of brain ...
Source: SharpBrains - August 3, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health antidepressants chemical-imbalance cognitive behaviour therapy depression inflammation neurotransmitter noradrenaline randomised controlled trials risk factors serotonin SSRI Source Type: blogs
Biopsychological pain management is not enough
I recently read a preprint of an editorial for Pain, the IASP journal. It was written by Prof Michael Nicholas, and the title reads “The biopsychosocial model of pain 40 years on: time for a reappraisal?” The paper outlines when and how pain became conceptualised within a biopsychosocial framework by the pioneers of interprofessional pain management: John Loeser (1982) and Gordon Waddell (1984). Nicholas points out the arguments against a biopsychosocial model with some people considering that despite it being a “holistic” framework, it often gets applied in a biomedical and psychological way. In ot...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 17, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Back pain Chronic pain Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Low back pain Motivation Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology Science in practice Therapeutic approaches biopsychosocial pain management Research Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Sometimes Good Things Happen Quickly, Even When It Involves the UK National Health Service
By David Tuller, DrPH The new ME/CFS guidelines from the UK’s National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, published last October, reversed the agency’s previous recommendations for graded exercise therapy and (curative) cognitive behavior therapy. While this change presented a welcome repudiation of the research and claims emanating from the GET/CBT ideological brigades, many regional […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 3, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Charles Shepherd ME Association Source Type: blogs
The New Buzz: These Are The Top Examples Of Digital Therapeutics
Digital Therapeutics or DTx in short is one of the latest buzzwords in the digital health ecosystem. Unlike others (NFT, Metaverse just to name a few) however, we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring short-term, substantial improvements in personalised healthcare.
What is Digital Therapeutics?
The definition by the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, the main professional hub is:
“Digital therapeutics (DTx) deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. They are used inde...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones software chronic pain apps cancer care mental health DTx digital therapeutics eczema Atopic dermatitis sleep disorders Source Type: blogs
ABCT Apologizes for Past Support of Gay Conversion Therapy
It ' s 2022, and theAssociation for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) has just issued a belatedapology because two of their past Presidents published papers on “aversion therapies” for “converting” gay and transgender individuals to the socially prescribed norms of sexuality and gender identity. Well, they didn ' t actually say this, nor did they name the prominent and distinguished clinical psychologists who authored these papers. Although these luminaries signed on to the mea culpa, there was no direct admission of the harm caused by these ill-advised practices. Instead, the document focused on “th...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 12, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Science Media Centre Chief Compares Patient Advocates to Nazis
By David Tuller, DrPH I have called the PACE trial of graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for ME/CFS “a piece of crap.” As I have indicated over the years, I think the trial is an example of serious research misconduct. (Whether it meets legal definitions of “fraud” is beyond my professional […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 4, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Fiona Fox science media centre Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Science Media Centre Chief Fiona Fox Compares ME/CFS Patient Advocates to Nazis
By David Tuller, DrPH I have called the PACE trial of graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for ME/CFS “a piece of crap.” As I have indicated over the years, I think the trial is an example of serious research misconduct. (Whether it meets legal definitions of “fraud” is beyond my professional […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 4, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS Fiona Fox science media centre Source Type: blogs
