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Professor Sir Simon Wessely to be made Regius Professor

Woolie

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Wessely tweet said:
@keithgeraghty thanks for best wishes. In 1989 we found conversion disorder (aka hysteria) in 2% of CFS patients. In GWS 2002 paper it was 0
That's funny. how can you "find" conversion disorder in anyone? It is simply the presence of certain neurological-type symptoms in the absence of a medical explanation! There are no reliable positive diagnostic features at all!
 
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