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==Quotes== === Cognitive behavioral therapy=== *On the topic of [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] (CBT): "I understand that this is a really charged topic among [[Chronic fatigue syndrome | CFS]] advocates, and there is a lot of misinformation out there. Just to be clear, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) does not get at the root cause of CFS. [[Cognitive behavioral therapy|CBT]] offers coping strategies and is not a cure. But I can't think of a single medical condition that isn't exacerbated by stress. CFS is no different. Having a chronic illness is stressful and it makes one's life complicated and there's a grieving process. CBT is for those parts of the illness. It's intended to help people solve problems and to challenge dysfunctional patterns. If you're seeing a CBT practitioner who views CFS as a psychologically-based illness and is approaching your CBT that way, fire them. Find someone else."<ref name = ":1" /> *"Subjective measures of sick people before & after they are repeatedly told, "You're not sick" is a social psych study, not a clinical trial."<ref name="VanElzakker2016">{{cite tweet | last = VanElzakker | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael VanElzakker | title = Subjective measures of sick people before & after they are repeatedly told, "You're not sick" is a social psych study, not a clinical trial. | date = Aug 17, 2016 | user = MBvanelzakker | url = https://twitter.com/mbvanelzakker/status/765686260195332096 }}</ref> * "What #PACEtrial called "CBT" is not normal CBT. [[Cancer]] patients see CBT therapists all the time and are not told, 'you're not really sick.'"<ref>{{Cite tweet | url = https://twitter.com/MBVanElzakker/status/765678606425198592 | title = What #PACEtrial called "CBT" is not normal CBT. Cancer patients see CBT therapists all the time and are not told, 'you're not really sick.' | last = VanElzakker | first = Michael | date = Aug 16, 2016 | user = MBVanElzakker | access-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = | archive-date = }}</ref> ====Vagus nerve infection hypothesis==== *Quoting Louis Pasteur in reference to Vagus nerve infection hypothesis: "The germ is nothing; the terrain is everything."<ref>{{Cite tweet | url = https://twitter.com/MBVanElzakker/status/453540676635201536 | title = The germ is nothing; the terrain is everything. - Louis Pasteur | last = VanElzakker | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael VanElzakker | date = Apr 8, 2014 | user = MBVanElzakker | access-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = | archive-date = | url-status = }}</ref> ====Sex differences in neuropathic pain==== *"I've always seen glial cell action in neuropathic pain as a model for #VNIH. This paper elucidates sex differences:"<ref>{{Cite tweet | url = https://twitter.com/MBVanElzakker/status/775884625113743361 | title = I've always seen glial cell action in neuropathic pain as a model for #VNIH. This paper elucidates sex differences | last = VanElzakker | first = Michael | authorlink = Michael VanElzakker | date = Sep 13, 2016 | user = MBVanElzakker | access-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = | archive-date = | url-status = }}</ref> ::[https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2016168.pdf Glial contributions to visceral pain: implications for disease etiology and the female predominance of persistent pain]<ref name = "Dodds2016">{{Cite web | url = https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2016168.pdf | title = Glial contributions to visceral pain: implications for disease etiology and the female predominance of persistent pain | last = Dodds | first = KN | last2 = Beckett | first2 = EAH | date = 2016 | website = nature.com | publisher = | archive-url = | archive-date = | url-status = | access-date = | last3 = Evans | first3 = SF | last4 = Grace | first4 = PM | last5 = Watkins | first5 = LR | last6 = Hutchinson | first6 = MR}}</ref> * "Sex differences in #MECFS could be explained by sex differences in glial cell & vagus nerve function." #VNIH.<ref>{{Cite tweet | url = https://twitter.com/MBVanElzakker/status/776506826070327296 | authorlink = Michael VanElzakker | title = Sex differences in #MECFS could be explained by sex differences in glial cell & vagus nerve function. | last = VanElzakker | first = Michael | date = Sep 15, 2016 | user = MBVanElzakker | access-date = 2018-10-14 | archive-url = | archive-date = | url-status = }}</ref><ref name = "Dodds2016" />
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