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*2015, [http://www.familypracticenews.com/specialty-focus/rheumatology/single-article-page/video-fibromyalgia-doesnt-fit-the-disease-model/e913134880916685f3005dac5459ab88.html VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model] | *2015, [http://www.familypracticenews.com/specialty-focus/rheumatology/single-article-page/video-fibromyalgia-doesnt-fit-the-disease-model/e913134880916685f3005dac5459ab88.html VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model] (there is a transcript<ref>[http://www.meaction.net/2016/02/20/nih-lead-clinical-investigator-thinks-cfs-is-psychosomatic/ NIH clinical lead thinks CFS is psychosomatic]</ref>) | ||
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Revision as of 12:09, February 21, 2016
Doctor Brian Walitt is a pain researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and oversees intramural clinical protocols. He is the lead clinical investigator of the NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study.
Research[edit | edit source]
Dr. Walitt's self-stated research interests include "Pain and related interoceptive disorders (i.e. fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue)" and "Social construction of illness and disease."
Controversy[edit | edit source]
Walitt believes that fibromyalgia is a "psychosomatic experience," a variant of normal, and not an abnormal disease state that should be medicalized.[1] He has stated that fibromyalgia is not a disease but rather a way of "dealing with the difficulties of just being a human.”[2]
In a 2015 paper on chemotherapy related cognitive dysfunction[3] co-authored by Walitt, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are referred to as somatoform illnesses, with their hallmark being a "...discordance between the severity of subjective experience and that of objective impairment...".
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
Talks & interviews[edit | edit source]
- 2015, VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model (there is a transcript[4])
Online presence[edit | edit source]
Learn more[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model
- ↑ NIH lead principal investigator thinks CFS is psychosomatic, #MEAction, February 20, 2016
- ↑ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy
- ↑ NIH clinical lead thinks CFS is psychosomatic
