Charlotte Blease

Charlotte R. Blease, PhD, is a researcher based at the School of Psychology University College Dublin, Ireland, Beth Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

Notable studies

• 2016, Cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review on efficacy and informed consent
• 2017, Epistemic injustice in healthcare encounters: evidence from chronic fatigue syndrome (Full text)

• 2018, Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations "Militant"? : Patient Protest in a Medical Controversy.
• 2018, Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the biopsychosocial model: a review of patient harm and distress in the medical encounter (Abstract)

• 2019, The 'Cognitive Behavioural Model' of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Critique of a Flawed Model (Full text)

Talks, interviews and blogs

• 2014, TEDxFulbrightDublin - Hypocritical oaths -- medicine's dirty secrets
• 2016, Mind the Gap: Ethical Failures in the Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - with Keith Geraghty

Advocacy

Open letter to The Lancet

• 19 June 2018, Dr Blease signed an open letter to the editor of The Lancet urging the editor to commission a fully independent review of the PACE trial, which the journal published in 2011.

Online presence

• PubMed
• Twitter
• Website

See also

• Keith Geraghty
• Stigma

myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - A disease often marked by neurological symptoms, but fatigue is sometimes a symptom as well. Some diagnostic criteria distinguish it from chronic fatigue syndrome, while other diagnostic criteria consider it to be a synonym for chronic fatigue syndrome. A defining characteristic of ME is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), which is a notable exacerbation of symptoms brought on by small exertions. PEM can last for days or weeks. Symptoms can include cognitive impairments, muscle pain (myalgia), trouble remaining upright (orthostatic intolerance), sleep abnormalities, and gastro-intestinal impairments, among others. An estimated 25% of those suffering from ME are housebound or bedbound. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies ME as a neurological disease.

biopsychosocial model (BPS) - A school of thought, usually based in psychology, which claims illness and disease to be the result of the intermingling of biological, psychological and social causes. (Learn more: me-pedia.org)

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

BMJ The BMJ (previously the British Medical Journal) is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.