Stay current on the pressing issues affecting chronic fatigue syndrome! Presenting vital new information on the biomedical community's ongoing struggle to treat this crippling disorder, Innovations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research and Clinical Practice documents the proceedings of the American Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome's 5th International Research, Clinical and Patient Conference. This insightful collection of articles by researchers and healthcare professionals deals primarily with two concerns of the ...
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Stay current on the pressing issues affecting chronic fatigue syndrome! Presenting vital new information on the biomedical community's ongoing struggle to treat this crippling disorder, Innovations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research and Clinical Practice documents the proceedings of the American Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome's 5th International Research, Clinical and Patient Conference. This insightful collection of articles by researchers and healthcare professionals deals primarily with two concerns of the AACFS-refining the clinical definition of CFS and renaming the disease to eliminate its negative connotation, and treating the disease through pathophysiological methods. The findings prove essential for healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, and anyone suffering from this disabling and misunderstood disorder. Innovations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research and Clinical Practice includes current research findings on: the "attitudinal impasse" between CFS sufferers and their physicians the effect diagnostic labels have on attributions for CFS subtypes of individuals with CFS based on sociodemographics, illness onset and duration, stressful precipitating events, symptom frequency, and comorbidity characteristics the relationship between comorbid Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and frequency of CFS symptoms health-related personality variables in CFS and multiple sclerosis Innovations in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research and Clinical Practice is the latest chapter in the continuing search for understanding and increased awareness of CFS. It is must reading for anyone connected with the disease--personally or professionally.
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New. 0789014254. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-152 pages---Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From a review in "Book News, Inc. ": "Papers from the Fifth International Research, Clinical, and Patient Conference of the American Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, held in Seattle, Washington, deal with refining the clinical definition of chronic fatigue syndrome, renaming the disease to eliminate stigma, and treating the disease through pathophysiological methods. Contributors are researchers and healthcare professionals in the US and Europe. Findings are of interest to healthcare professionals, biomedical researchers, and patients. Patarca-Montero teaches microbiology and immunology and co-directs the E. M. Papper Laboratory of Clinical Immunology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. "--with a bonus offer--;
