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I think that is a very valid point anciendaze. With ME there's a wide array of symptoms. Judging from the patients I've been in touch with, perhaps the main term neurological - with a part of them having neurologically mediated psychological symptoms would fit better (as I don't believe in somatization and such being a real issue). As others have mentioned, and is well known, parts of the patients also have direct symptoms from immune system malfunction (such as inflamed and swollen joints) and endocrinological issues as well.I want to point out that between 1/3 and 2/3 (depending on the source) of patients with lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus) have neuropsychiatric symptoms. These may be severe enough to require hospitalization. The disease is still classified as physiological. The critical difference is a visible rash.
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There are plenty of data showing biological anomalies in patients with neuropsychiatric illness, even after removing confounding effects of harmful treatments. (...)
Seems like Lipkin/Hornig proposes to see it the other way around (or at least with neuropsychology in the center, and perhaps other terms as supplemental).
I really pity those who have syndromes such as OCD, although that the root cause isn't known, they often times get the blame for being sick, like it's something they have brought upon themselves.
I agree. The term is even being used about cognitive abilities tests such as the common WAIS test...The problem is that neuropsychiatry is a vague, blurred catch-all term. Its not very precise, and its meaning changes over time. I think the word shouldn't be used, but to claim its wrong, when under various definitions its right according to facts most of us would agree with, sounds odd at the very least.
Wouldn't you also say it would be possible for the inflammation to cause malfunctioning neurons, reuptake mechanisms in the synapses and such - resulting in neurological symptoms and neuropsychological symptoms? I'm not saying I know, I am saying I see the possibility, and I judging from the Mella/Fluge studies, I think it seems like autoimmunity/autoinflammation is causing the 'brain symptoms'.Mast cell activation disorder, whatever the cause, leads to systemic inflammation, including of the brain.
That's a valid point IVI. Most of the bucket load of ME symptoms fall into that category, so neurological seems like a better term, since the mainstay of the symptoms are of that character.Of course vision problems and numbness (etc) need have no psychiatric component, they may simply be 'neurological'