Trial By Error: Columbia Experts Urge BMJ to Retract Not-Fully-Reviewed Study
By David Tuller, DrPH On Thursday, Professors Vincent Racaniello and Mady Hornig, both from Columbia University, wrote to BMJ’s research integrity coordinator. I have been corresponding with BMJ, and specifically the research integrity coordinator, about the Norwegian study of cognitive behavior therapy combined with music therapy as a treatment for chronic fatigue in adolescents after […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 25, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ CBT mononucleosis music therapy norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Columbia Experts Urge BMJ to Retract Problem-Plagued Study
By David Tuller, DrPH On Thursday, Professors Vincent Racaniello and Mady Hornig, both from Columbia University, wrote to BMJ’s research integrity coordinator. I have been corresponding with BMJ, and specifically the research integrity coordinator, about the Norwegian study of cognitive behavior therapy combined with music therapy as a treatment for chronic fatigue in adolescents after […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 25, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ CBT mononucleosis music therapy norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Another Letter About BMJ ’ s Music Therapy Study
By David Tuller, DrPH I am still waiting for answers from BMJ about the Norwegian study of cognitive behavior therapy plus music therapy for treatment of chronic fatigue in adolescents after mononucleosis. The study was published in BMJ Paediatrics Open. I have written about it here. This morning I sent the following letter to the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 21, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS BMJ CBT music therapy norway Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Too Much Time to Think
Slights, mistakes, embarrassments, accidents, catastrophes. Are these things flooding your mind? Is your self-esteem in the toilet? Have you stopped to ask yourself why?
Here’s the reason — COVID-19 is doing a number on our brain.
Pre-COVID, we had a million distractions. It was safe to roam the earth. You could go to a store for a little shopping without fearing for your life. You could venture out to a restaurant and have a meal cooked for you. Heck, you could even take your kid to a drama class, which is now being taught via ZOOM meetings.
Since March of 2020, there are just fewer things to do to take out mind o...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Personal Self-Esteem Self-Help Boredom coronavirus COVID-19 Embarrassment Memory pandemic quarantine Shame social distancing Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Nudge for BMJ About Music Therapy; Letter to “ Health Anxiety ” Expert
By David Tuller, DrPH I have written two more letters and have posted them below. The first letter is a nudge to BMJ’s research integrity department, which missed a deadline this week for providing me with an update on the status of that music therapy study from Norway. You know, the one that started off […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 3, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT health anxiety jo daniels music therapy Source Type: blogs
Models of Social Interaction Do Not Reflect Current Social Life
Are you secretly dreading the day when social distancing is just a vague memory? When you once again have to physically interact with other people, whether you like them or not? Chances are you are not a social deviant or a freak, but a representative of the new normal.
It’s Time to Rethink “Normal”
The long-established preference for, and mastering of, face-to-face interaction with other people is considered tantamount to a high level of social functioning. Conversely, the image of a person with low social functioning is one who avoids physical contact, peering out at the real world through a (digital) key...
Source: World of Psychology - June 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Communication Family Friends General Psychology Relationships Research coronavirus COVID-19 extravesion Introversion Social Behavior social distancing social life Social Psychology Socialization Source Type: blogs
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 21, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: BMJ Responds to Appeals About Norway ’ s CBT-Music Therapy Study
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this week, I sent a nudge to Professor Imti Choonara, editor-in-chief of BMJ Paediatrics Open, and Fiona Godlee, editorial director of BMJ, about a problematic “feasibility study” published a few months ago. That followed a letter two weeks ago, to which I had not received a response. Previous posts on […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 18, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ CBT Fiona Godlee music therapy norway wyller Source Type: blogs
Quantifying Loss of Kidney Function with Age in a Human Population
Kidney function is critical to health, but, as is the case for all organs, the kidneys declines with age. The damage of aging produces harmful outcomes in many ways. For example, hypertension causes structural pressure damage in sensitive tissues in the kidneys. Further, senescent cells and other sources of chronic inflammation disrupt normal tissue maintenance processes in the kidneys, leading to the scar-like collagen deposits of fibrosis. In turn, loss of kidney function accelerates many other aspects of aging, including neurodegeneration and the onset of cognitive decline.
An international study that has been ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Letter to KCL, Another Letter to BMJ
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, I wrote about a troubling press release issued by King’s College London regarding a major study of cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for so-called dissociative seizures. On Friday, I sent a letter to the two communications people listed on the press release about the study, as well as […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 15, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ CBT Fiona Godlee music therapy norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Response from Dagbladet
The Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet, taking a page from prestigious UK news organizations, has recently published a series of articles portraying ME patients as anti-scientific and belligerent. As I noted in a letter to Dagbladet two weeks ago, the journalist also misrepresented my academic and professional credentials. Since I didn’t hear back, I recently posted both […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 3, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Dagbladet Lightning Process norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Paediatrics Open About that CBT-Music Therapy Study
UPDATE: I sent the following correction to Dr Choonara shortly after sending the letter of concern. Dear Dr Choonara: I wanted to make a slight correction in point #3 below. The first sentence should have read: “Why was the outcome of recovery not mentioned in the trial registration and statistical analysis plan yet still highlighted […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 31, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ music therapy norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Two Letters to Dagbladet About Its ME Coverage
In recent weeks, the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet has published a series of articles about ME, which it also calls CFS/ME. These articles have promoted the use of the Lightning Process as an intervention, criticized patients and the Norwegian ME Association for expressing opinions about the Lightning Process and cognitive behavior therapy, and engaged in multiple […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 30, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Lightning Process norway Source Type: blogs
Trial by Error: Tack ’ s Take on BMJ ’ s CBT-Music Therapy “ Feasibility Study ”
I have always made it clear that I pay attention when smart patients assess bad research. That’s how I stumbled into this whole mess in the first place–by reading what patients were writing about the PACE trial. (In that case, I at first dismissed the concerns when I read about how participants could get worse […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 28, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ CBT norway Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter to Senior Author of Norway ’ s CBT-Music Therapy Study
By David Tuller, DrPH In the past week, I have written three posts about a Norwegian study of cognitive behavior therapy plus music therapy for adolescents with chronic fatigue after acute Epstein-Barr virus infection–an illness known as mononucleosis in the US and glandular fever in the UK. The corresponding author of the study is Vegard […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 22, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
