By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this week, I wrote to Helena Liira of the Helsinki University Central Hospital about a new trial of “amygdala and insula retraining” for so-called “functional disorders”—fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome along with ME/CFS and long Covid. (I critiqued the trial here.) In particular, I wondered ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Update: I have sent the following letter to the responsible person listed on the clinical trial registration for the Finnish study of "amygdala and insula retraining": Dear Dr Lira-- I am a public health researcher and journalist with the Center for Global Public Health, part of UC Berkeley's ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Apparently, after 30+ years of promoting cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (so-called), Professor Trudie Chalder has discovered something new: Patients worry a lot! And those with worse symptoms tend to have higher worry levels! She believes CBT for CFS can be tweaked to make ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Now here's a paper called "The Effects of Messaging on Expectations and Understanding of Long COVID: An Online Randomised Trial," from researchers at the UK's Health Security Agency. Two of the nine authors, including the senior author who conceived the study, are also affiliated with a ...

By David Tuller, DrPH More than ten years ago, Natalie Boulton and her son, Josh, made a film called "Voices from the Shadows," about the plight of ME patients. Natalie, from Bristol, England, was intimately familiar with the issue because of the long-time illness of her daughter, Anna. The film, ...