Trial By Error: A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Inflated FND Rate Claims
By David Tuller, DrPH The journal NeuroImage: Clinical, an Elsevier title, recently agreed to correct the false statement that a 2010 study found functional neurological disorder to be the second-most-common diagnosis at outpatient neurology clinics. To the journal’s credit, it responded positively within days of receiving a letter about the matter from a group of … Trial By Error: A Letter to Psychological Medicine about Inflated FND Rate Claims Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 3, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized david perez FND Psychological Medicine Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Letter Requesting Corrections of Inflated Prevalence Rates in Nine More FND Papers
By David Tuller, DrPH Several colleagues and I recently wrote to the journal NeuroImage: Clinical to request a correction in a 2021 article about functional neurological disorder (FND). The article included the false claim that a seminal 2010 study found that FND was the second-most-common diagnosis at outpatient neurology clinics. In fact, FND—called conversion disorder … Trial By Error: A Letter Requesting Corrections of Inflated Prevalence Rates in Nine More FND Papers Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 30, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized david perez FND functional neurological disorder Selma Aybek Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Families with Long Covid Kids Fight Against Social Services
By David Tuller, DrPH For decades in the UK, parents of children with what was formerly called chronic fatigue syndrome have run the risk of being accused of making or keeping their kids sick and/or not pursuing proper treatment strategies. These cases have been based on the discredited belief that graded exercise therapy (GET) and … Trial By Error: Families with Long Covid Kids Fight Against Social Services Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 27, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Binita Kane Long Covid long covid kids NICE Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Families with Long Covid Kids Fight Against Medical/Social Services
By David Tuller, DrPH For decades in the UK, parents of children with what was formerly called chronic fatigue syndrome have run the risk of being accused of making or keeping their kids sick and/or not pursuing proper treatment strategies. These cases have been based on the discredited belief that graded exercise therapy (GET) and … Trial By Error: Families with Long Covid Kids Fight Against Medical/Social Services Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 27, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Binita Kane Long Covid long covid kids NICE Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: FND Experts Agree To Correct Inflated Prevalence Claim
By David Tuller, DrPH For years, experts in functional neurological disorder (FND) have cited a seminal study in their field to claim that the diagnosis was the second-most-common presentation at outpatient neurology clinics, with a prevalence of 16%. This claim was, and is, categorically untrue. The Scottish Neurological Symptoms Study (SNSS), which yielded multiple papers … Trial By Error: FND Experts Agree To Correct Inflated Prevalence Claim Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 24, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized correction FND functional neurological disorder Jon Stone Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Action For ME Report on NICE Guidelines; Brian Hughes on Myths About the Guidelines; Michael Sharpe ’ s San Francisco Speech
By David Tuller, DrPH I often feel so far behind in keeping up with developments in this field. Here are a few recent items I wanted to highlight. **********Action For ME’s report on NHS adoption of the new NICE guidelines In October, 2021, after a protracted and highly contentious process, the UK’s National Institute for … Trial By Error: Action For ME Report on NICE Guidelines; Brian Hughes on Myths About the Guidelines; Michael Sharpe’s San Francisco Speech Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 16, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Action for ME Brian Hughes Michael Sharpe Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Claim that CBT Is Safe Is “ Misleading, ” Says Dutch Ad Group
By David Tuller, DrPH In a recent decision, the Advertising Code Foundation in the Netherlands has criticized as “misleading” a statement on the website of the Knowledge Center for Chronic Fatigue (NKCV) touting its treatment approach as “not harmful.” The decision is something of a slap at the NKCV and its co-leader, Professor Hans Knoop, … Trial By Error: Claim that CBT Is Safe Is “Misleading,” Says Dutch Ad Group Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT Hans Knoop Netherlands Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Author Michael Alenyikov on ME and the Writing Life
By David Tuller, DrPH Michael Alenyikov was the first person I knew with ME, or what was then being called CFIDS—chronic fatigue immune disorder syndrome. We met in the mid-1980s in NY—we were younger then!—and we both moved to San Francisco in the 1990s. Michael trained as a clinical psychologist but switched his professional focus … Trial By Error: Author Michael Alenyikov on ME and the Writing Life Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 8, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Michael Alenyikov writers Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Letter Regarding Inflated Prevalence Rates for Functional Neurological Disorder
By David Tuller, DrPH I have posted previously about how papers on functional neurological disorder (FND) have routinely mis-cited a seminal 2010 study in asserting that the diagnosis is the second-most-common presentation at neurology clinics, with a rate of 16%. In fact, the 2010 study found that only 5.5% had FND, the new name for … Trial By Error: A Letter Regarding Inflated Prevalence Rates for Functional Neurological Disorder Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Carson FND functional neurological disorder neurology Stone Source Type: blogs
A Long-Awaited Vaccine
by Gertrud U. Rey Almost sixty years have passed since the initial formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine caused enhanced disease in children when they were subsequently infected with the virus. Since then, RSV has continued to be a substantial public health threat to infants, young children, and older people. Although progress in developing a … A Long-Awaited Vaccine Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey adjuvant F protein FDA fusion protein GlaxoSmithKline gsk Jason McLellan Pfizer phase III trial pre-fusion F protein pre-fusion spike protein public health respiratory syncytial virus rsv vaccine Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Dr Binita Kane on Kids with Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Physician Binita Kane, a lung specialist in Manchester, England, and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s School of Biological Sciences, has been outspoken on the subject of long Covid in children. Her passion about the issue has been fueled by her own daughter’s struggle with prolonged symptoms after … Trial By Error: Dr Binita Kane on Kids with Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 31, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Binita Kane children with long covid Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Psychologist Brian Hughes Discusses His New Book, “ A Conceptual History of Psychology ”
By David Tuller, DrPH My friend and colleague Brian Hughes, a professor of psychology at the University of Galway in Ireland, recently published his latest book—“A Conceptual History of Psychology: The Mind Through Time.” Rather than dating the field of psychology to the creation and growth of university departments of psychology in the late 19th … Trial By Error: Psychologist Brian Hughes Discusses His New Book, “A Conceptual History of Psychology” Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 28, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Study for Long Covid Proves that Unblinded Studies with Subjective Outcomes Generate Positive Reports
By David Tuller, DrPH Three years ago, I wrote a blog post about a problematic Dutch study that had been funded by a major health agency and was being led by Hans Knoop, a professor of medical psychology at Amsterdam University Medical Centers. The study sought to test whether a course of cognitive behavior therapy … Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Study for Long Covid Proves that Unblinded Studies with Subjective Outcomes Generate Positive Reports Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 25, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT Knoop Long Covid Netherlands Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Questions About the Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder and the Research on Hoover ’ s Sign for Functional Leg Weakness
By David Tuller, DrPH(This is a long-ish post. Sorry! It covers two complicated issues. I want to thank an intrepid source for help with this.) I have great sympathy for patients diagnosed with functional neurological disorder (FND). Their symptoms can be seriously disabling and their plight has long been neglected and dismissed by the medical … Trial By Error: Questions About the Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder and the Research on Hoover’s Sign for Functional Leg Weakness Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 22, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized FND functional neurological disorder Perez Stone Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A Day in the Life of Anil van der Zee
By David Tuller, DrPH It is May 12th–ME International Awareness Day. (Or ME/CFS International Awareness Day if you’re the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Washington, DC, #MEAction and Body Politic have organized a protest and press conference “to demand bold, urgent governmental action for the millions of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis … Trial By Error: A Day in the Life of Anil van der Zee Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 12, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized anil van der zee ME Awareness Day Source Type: blogs
