Recovery from refractory chronic fatigue syndrome with CBT and modafinil.

Many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) fail to derive benefit from evidence-based treatments such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy leading to permanent disability. To discover whether a repeat prescription of modafinil might potentiate the benefits of CBT leading to social recovery as defined by 2 or more point improvement in energy and muscular pain/concentration and return to work or full-time training. Three patients with treatment-resistant CFS (mean duration 17.

Targeting dissociation using cognitive behavioural therapy in voice hearers with psychosis and a history of interpersonal trauma: A case series.

Objectives: Previous studies have suggested that dissociation might represent an important mechanism in the maintenance of auditory verbal hallucinations (i.e., voices) in people who have a history of traumatic life experiences.

Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: the relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder.

To determine the relationship between language abnormalities and broader cognitive impairment and thought disorder by examining language and cognition in schizophrenia and aphasia (a primary language disorder). Cognitive and linguistic profiles were measured with a battery of standardised tests, and compared in a clinical population of  = 50 ( = 30 with schizophrenia and  = 20 with aphasia) and  = 61 non-clinical comparisons ( = 45 healthy controls and  = 16 non-affected first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia). Both clinical groups showed linguistic deficits.

The language profile of formal thought disorder.

Formal thought disorder (FTD) is clinically manifested as disorganized speech, but there have been only few investigations of its linguistic properties. We examined how disturbance of thought may relate to the referential function of language as expressed in the use of noun phrases (NPs) and the complexity of sentence structures. We used a comic strip description task to elicit language samples from 30 participants with schizophrenia (SZ), 15 with moderate or severe FTD (SZ + FTD), and 15 minimal or no FTD (SZ-FTD), as well as 15 first-degree relatives of people with SZ (FDRs) and 15 neurotypical controls (NC).