Psychological Medicine

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 …

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Trial By Error: My Letter to Psych Medicine About Professor Chalder’s Flawed Systematic Review

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this week, I wrote about the bogus systematic review of treatment trials for “chronic fatigue syndrome” published this month by Professor Trudie Chalder in Psychological Medicine. In many respects, as I noted, this journal functions a an in-house marketing or public relations organ for members of the CBT/GET ideological brigades, …

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Trial By Error: More Letters about Professor Anthony David’s Mis-Citations of Key Study on Costs of MUS

By David Tuller, DrPH I have been in correspondence with the journal Psychological Medicine in my efforts to get it to correct an undisputed factual era related to the cost of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS). After three weeks, the journal’s co-editor-in-chief, Professor Robin Murray, finally alerted me on May 4th that the authors “have …

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