Psychology has moved quite a few distance in the final 20 years from a period when we viewed lots of diseases including lots of psychiatric sicknesses as resulting primarily from emotional trauma. The technical facts of organic etiology for lots of those conditions is far large to ignore, at least for most psychologists. Those of us who have worked in the disability field recognise our role is to assist and support people to cope with their illness.
The spinmeisters are spinning, the technical society keeps discontented, and also the chronic tiredness syndrome patient continues on the roller coaster ride supplied by investigation demonstrating replicating retroviruses that isn’t always replicated in several investigation labs.
In a paper published today by “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, scientists found traces of murine leukemia virus related viruses in 32 of 37 chronic fatigue syndrome patients; but in only 3 of 44 healthy blood donors.
The researchers did not find XMRV, as had been erroneously reported last month by a variety of sources. A paper published by the CDC at that time found no XMRV or other MLV-related viruses in patients with the syndrome.
Dr. Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health, the senior author of the work published today, stressed that his study does not prove that any of these viruses causes harm. It may be that individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome are more vulnerable to infection, including infection due to the several MLV-related viruses found in the patients in this latest research.
MLV are known to cause cancer and neurological problems in mice, but it is not known whether they cause any diseases in human beings. XMRV is among several different members of the MLV family; and its conspicuous absence from the results in this study means that there remains no resolution as to the role XMRV may play in chronic fatigue syndrome.
It remains unclear why only two research teams have found evidence of these retroviruses. It is possible that different research teams are using significantly different methods of detection; and federal health officials are attempting to standardize the process. Of concern is the fact that the head of the federal tissue safety laboratory has been unable to isolate XMRV, whereas the group in Reno, Nevada claims to have done so.
Despite all the uncertainty, certain individuals are calling for treating chronic fatigue syndrome with agents used to treat another retrovirus, HIV. The pharamaceutical companies, while always interested in a new market for their wares, are wisely demurring, citing the need to await stronger evidence that such viruses cause chronic fatigue syndrome before launching large clinical trials of anti-HIV drugs for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome.
So, there is no intrigue this summer time. There was no agreements this summer. It might behoove us to reflect on all of the vitriol and misinformation that appears to be the simply thing that it has been exposed to cause this long, warm summer.
I am not building an ethical censure. My theory is about an amoral, developed propensity which can exist hard-wired in brains in such a great way that it is very hard to avoid. We are confronted with drives, while there is a panoply of other drives that can be abrogated to larger or lesser degrees, but in any case they just exist in human nature. And like basically all psychological traits, the one I speak of could be expected to vary by individual. Psychogenecists may consist largely of those among doctors and thinkers who have a very strong instinct that the patient have to be responsible for the sickness in some way, when in fact this might be not normally the case or at least cannot be radically proven to commonly be the case.
The spinmeisters are spinning, the technical society keeps discontented, and also the chronic tiredness syndrome patient continues on the roller coaster ride supplied by investigation demonstrating replicating retroviruses that isn’t always replicated in several investigation labs.
In a paper published today by “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, scientists found traces of murine leukemia virus related viruses in 32 of 37 chronic fatigue syndrome patients; but in only 3 of 44 healthy blood donors.
The researchers did not find XMRV, as had been erroneously reported last month by a variety of sources. A paper published by the CDC at that time found no XMRV or other MLV-related viruses in patients with the syndrome.
Dr. Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health, the senior author of the work published today, stressed that his study does not prove that any of these viruses causes harm. It may be that individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome are more vulnerable to infection, including infection due to the several MLV-related viruses found in the patients in this latest research.
MLV are known to cause cancer and neurological problems in mice, but it is not known whether they cause any diseases in human beings. XMRV is among several different members of the MLV family; and its conspicuous absence from the results in this study means that there remains no resolution as to the role XMRV may play in chronic fatigue syndrome.
It remains unclear why only two research teams have found evidence of these retroviruses. It is possible that different research teams are using significantly different methods of detection; and federal health officials are attempting to standardize the process. Of concern is the fact that the head of the federal tissue safety laboratory has been unable to isolate XMRV, whereas the group in Reno, Nevada claims to have done so.
Despite all the uncertainty, certain individuals are calling for treating chronic fatigue syndrome with agents used to treat another retrovirus, HIV. The pharamaceutical companies, while always interested in a new market for their wares, are wisely demurring, citing the need to await stronger evidence that such viruses cause chronic fatigue syndrome before launching large clinical trials of anti-HIV drugs for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome.
So, there is no intrigue this summer time. There was no agreements this summer. It might behoove us to reflect on all of the vitriol and misinformation that appears to be the simply thing that it has been exposed to cause this long, warm summer.
I am not building an ethical censure. My theory is about an amoral, developed propensity which can exist hard-wired in brains in such a great way that it is very hard to avoid. We are confronted with drives, while there is a panoply of other drives that can be abrogated to larger or lesser degrees, but in any case they just exist in human nature. And like basically all psychological traits, the one I speak of could be expected to vary by individual. Psychogenecists may consist largely of those among doctors and thinkers who have a very strong instinct that the patient have to be responsible for the sickness in some way, when in fact this might be not normally the case or at least cannot be radically proven to commonly be the case.
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