David Tuller
Trial By Error: Psychologist Brian Hughes Discusses His New Book, “A Conceptual History of Psychology”
By David Tuller
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 ...
Trial By Error: Dutch CBT Study for Long Covid Proves that Unblinded Studies with Subjective Outcomes Generate Positive Reports
By David Tuller
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 ...
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
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 ...
Trial By Error: A Day in the Life of Anil van der Zee
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHIt 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 ...
Trial By Error: Mt Sinai’s David Putrino on Long Covid and Functional Neurological Disorder
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at New York’s Mt Sinai Health System, where he is director of rehabilitation innovation. Over the last three years, he has worked extensively with patients experiencing prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of Covid-19, or what has become ...