Michael Sharpe

Professor Michael Sharpe, M.A., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.Psych., is a British professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. He is a key author of the PACE trial helping to devise the Oxford criteria as a diagnostic tool for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Notable studies

• 2017, Response to: "Do more people recover from chronic fatigue syndrome with cognitive behaviour therapy or graded exercise therapy than with other treatments?" (Abstract)
• 2017, Long-term economic evaluation of cognitive-behavioural group treatment versus enhanced usual care for functional somatic syndromes] (Abstract)
• 2011, PACE trial
• 2002, The report of the Chief Medical Officer's CFS/ME working group: what does it say and will it help?
• 1998, Doctors' diagnoses and patients' perceptions. Lessons from chronic fatigue syndrome
• 1997, Chronic fatigue syndrome. A practical guide to assessment and management

Books

• 2008, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (The Facts)
• 2003 ABC of Psychological Medicine (ABC Series)
• 1999, Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes
• 1995 Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms

Media coverage and interviews

• 2015, Chronic fatigue patients criticise study that says exercise can help - Guardian 28 Oct 2015
• 2013, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 2 - Lancet TV on YouTube (about the PACE trial)
• 2011 Comparison of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome - the PACE trial -ABC.Net.AU Radio (with transcript)

Online presence

• Twitter

List of publications

• PubMed
• University of Oxford - Michael Sharpe

Learn more

• 2005, A Response to Michael Sharpe

See also

• Peter White
• Simon Wessely
• Trudie Chalder
• Esther Crawley
• PACE trial

Oxford University a prestigious university located in Oxford, England renowned for its teaching and research in health and medicine

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

somatic An adjective relating to the physical body or physical symptoms. It is often contrasted with the adjective "psychological", which refers to the human mind or mental symptoms. In biology, "somatic cells" refer to all the cells of the body, except those which form an egg or sperm.

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.