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Trial By Error: A Follow-Up on a Post About Whether Anxiety and Depression Perpetuate Functional Limb Weakness

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 case, “baseline” means mid-illness, so …

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Trial By Error: Depression/Anxiety Not Linked to Negative Outcomes in Patients with Functional Limb Weakness, FND Experts Report

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 for seriously flawed research from …

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