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Walitt | Walitt believes that [[Fibromyalgia]] is a psychosomatic experience, a variant of normal, and not an abnormal disease state that should be medicalized.<ref>[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]</ref> In a 2015 paper on chemotherapy related cognitive dysfunction<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750385/ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy]</ref> 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...". | ||
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Doctor Brian Walitt is a pain researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and oversees intramural clinical protocols.
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Walitt believes that Fibromyalgia is a psychosomatic experience, a variant of normal, and not an abnormal disease state that should be medicalized.[1] In a 2015 paper on chemotherapy related cognitive dysfunction[2] 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...".
