"Multiple Psychological and Physiological Factors may Contribute" to CFS?
I'm going to revive this discussion from the last archived page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:C...iological_Factors_may_Contribute.22_to_CFS.3F
re: "multiple psychological and physiological factors may contribute to the development and maintenance of symptoms. pmid at 12562565; Chronic Fatigue and Its Syndromes by Simon Wessely, Matthew Hotopf and Michael Sharpe (Jan 15, 1998) " Wesseley, Sharpe and Hotopf are not reliable authorities. This is also an outdated book (1998). There isn't a reasonable basis for concluding that multiple psychological factors contribute. I have certainly read that from authoritative sources and will look for one. As far as I know, no bona fide study has ever found psychologic factors as (even partially) causative. Really, the line has to be drawn against using the results of any study employing the patently invalid "Sharpe ('Oxford") 1991" criteria which defines nothing more than Idiopathic CF, not CFS (it explicitly excludes illness with any neurologic signs; "ME" has always been classified as neurologic by WHO). Since there is strong (though manufactured, on the part of the UK psychiatrists) controversy over psychological causation, this should not be included in the first paragraph as a fact. It should be treated in the controversy article or somewhere else. JustinReilly (talk) 23:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)