By David Tuller, DrPH As I have regularly noted, patients with diagnoses of functional neurological disorder (FND) experience tremendous suffering. A patient who goes by the moniker @FnDPortal has written a compelling and sometimes harrowing essay, Cadenza for Fractured Consciousness: A Personal History of the World’s Most Misunderstood Illness, that is ...

By David Tuller *This post has been corrected. In the first sentence, I originally wrote in error that the open letter was sent to Cochrane on September 4th, not on August 28th. On August 28th, the Science for ME (S4ME) forum sent an open letter to Cochrane’s editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser, ...

By David Tuller, DrPH *This post has been corrected. I initially wrote that the protocol did not appear to call for sub-group analyses, but in fact it did. The post also includes a passage that is from documentation in the supplemental material, but I had identified it as coming from ...

By David Tuller, DrPH UPDATE: Physical therapist Zachary Grin, whose criticism prompted this follow-up post, has posted a response, so I have highlighted it right below this introduction. He continues to believe I misrepresented the study. I continue to disagree. Prognostic factors, as he notes, are baseline characteristics. (In this ...

By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has just published a paper called “The Impact of Depression, Anxiety and Personality Disorders on the Outcome of Patients with Functional Limb Weakness – Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.” As I have previously noted, the journal is something of a house organ ...