I am doing some research with King's College London into the attention and concentration difficulties that many people with CFS/ME experience. This research aims to understand these issues further by developing neurological tasks which assess attention and concentration.
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Here's the link to the survey: https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/kcl/cfs_me
Your participation would be greatly appreciated!
From the survey explanation:
The first set of questions are diagnostic criteria for CFS/ME, which are mandatory questions, but the rest of the questions are optional.
You will be asked to rate a list of words in terms of how personally emotive or distressing you feel they are. I.e. the degree to which the word brings to mind an unpleasant or distressing emotion related to your CFS.
My underlining.
Although I am familiar with multiple diagnostic criteria which are in active use, as well as some which have passed out of use, I am not familiar with a diagnostic criteria for either CFS or ME which involves distress or emotions to specific associations.
(Although I know of one which, along with pathological muscle weakness after exertion, does recognize a general "emotional liability", a wording which indicates a neurological problem and would be similar to emotional disturbances experienced in traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Parkinson's, complex migraine, seizure disorders, etc., but this does not seem related to what you are doing here.)
Can you please explain what diagnostic criteria you are using?