ME and CFS

Archives (1938-1996)

A list of publications on ME, PVFS, CFS, fatigue,
chronic illness and disability, 1938-1996.


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More recent references can be found, with summaries, in chronological order and according to subject, in the Medical Updates. The most significant papers are also listed in the Annual Capita Selecta and factsheets.

 

Abbey SE. Psychopharmacology and chronic fatigue syndrome In: Straus SE, editor. Chronic fatigue syndrome. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994.


Abbey SE. Somatization, illness attribution and the sociocultural psychiatry of chronic fatigue syndrome. In: Bock GR and Whelan J, editors. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Chichester: Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Ablashi DV, Berneman Z, Lawyer C and Komaroff A. Kutapressin inhibits in vitro replication of human herpes-virus type 6. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S113.

Acheson D. The clinical syndrome variously called benign myalgic encephalomyelitis, Iceland disease and epidemic neuromyasthenia. American Journal of Medicine 1959; 26: 569-595.

Acheson ED. Encephalomyelitis associated with poliomyelitis virus. An outbreak in a nurses' home. Lancet 1954; 2: 1044-1048.

Adler N and Matthews K. Health Psychology: why do some people get sick and some stay well? Annual Reviews in Psychology 1994; 45: 229-259.

Affleck G, Tennen H, Croog S and Levine, S. Causal attribution, perceived control, and recovery from a heart attack. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 1987b; 5: 339-355.

Affleck G, Tennen H, Pfeiffer C and Fifield J. Appraisals of control and predictability in adapting to a chronic disease. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1987a; 53: 273-279.

Altay HT, Abbey SE, Toner BB, Salit IE, Brooker H and Garfinkel, PE. The neuropsychological dimensions of post-infectious neuromyasthenia (chronic fatigue syndrome): a preliminary report. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 1990; 20: 141-149.

Anderson, SB. The diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome with bio-electronic regulatory (BER) techniques. American Journal of Acupuncture 1988; 16: 225-234.

Andreasen NJC and Norris AS. Long-term adjustment and adaptation mechanisms in severely burned adults. In: Moos RH, editor. Coping with physical illness. New York: Plenum Press, 1977.

Andrews G, Tennant C, Hewson D and Valliant GE. Life event stress, social support, coping style, and risk of psychological impairment. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1978; 166: 307-316.

Anson CA, Stanwyck DJ and Krause JS. Social support and health status in spinal cord injury. Paraplegia 1993; 31: 632-638.

Antoni MH, Brickman A, Lutgendorf S, Klimas N, Imia-Fins A, Ironson G, et al. Psycho-social correlates of illness burden in chronic fatigue syndrome. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S73-S78.

Antonovsky A. Unravelling the mystery of health. How people manage stress and stay well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Aoki T, Miyakoshi H, Usuda Y and Herberman RB. Low NK syndrome and its relationship to chronic fatigue syndrome. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology 1993: 69: 253-265.

Archard LC, Bowles NE, Behan PO, Bell EJ and Doyle D. Post-viral fatigue syndrome: persistence of enterovirus RNA in muscle and elevated creatine kinase. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1988; 81: 326-329.

Atkinson JH, Grant I, Kennedy CJ, Richman DD, Spector SA and McCutchan JA. Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among men infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Archives of General Psychiatry 1988; 45: 859-864.

Bakheit AM. Postviral fatigue syndrome. Practitioner 1993; 237: 610-614.

Bakheit AMO, Behan PO, Dinan TG, Gray CE and O'Keane VO. Possible upregulation of hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors in patients with postviral fatigue syndrome. British Medical Journal 1992; 304: 1010-2.

Bakheit AMO, Behan PO, Watson WS and Morton, JJ. Abnormal arginine-vasopressin secretion and water metabolism in patients with postviral fatigue syndrome. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1993; 87: 234-238.

Bandura A, Cioffi D, Taylor B and Brouillard ME. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with cognitive stressors and opioid activation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1988; 55: 479-488.

Bandura A. Perceived self-efficacy in the exercise of personal agency. The Psychologist 1989; 2: 411-423.

Barnes PRJ, Taylor DJ, Kemp GJ and Radda GK. Skeletal muscle bioenergetics in the chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1993; 56: 679-683.

Baron RJ. An introduction to medical phenomenology: I can't hear you while I'm listening. Annals of Internal Medicine 1985; 103: 606-611.

Barton S and Hicks RA. Type A-B behavior and incidence of infectious mononucleosis in college students. Psychological Reports 1985; 56: 545-546.

Bastein S and Thomas R. Personal communication.

Bates DW, Buchwald D, Lee J, Kith P, Doolittle T, Rutherford C, et al. Clinical laboratory test findings in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Archives of Internal Medicine 1995; 155: 97-103.

Bates DW, Buchwald D, Lee J, Kith P, Doolittle TH, Umali P and Komaroff AL. A comparison of case definitions of chronic fatigue syndrome. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S11-S15.

Bearn J and Wessely S. Neurobiological aspects of the chronic fatigue syndrome. European Journal of Clinical Investigation 1994; 24: 79-90.

Bearn JA, Allain T, Coskeran P, Munro N, Butler J, McGregor A and Wessely, S. Neuroendocrine responses to D-fenfluramine and insulin-induced hypoglycemia in chronic fatigue syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 1995; 37: 245-252.

Beckham EE and Adams RL. Coping behavior in depression: report on a new scale. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1984; 22: 71-75.

Beckham JC, D'Amico CJ, Rice JR, Jordan JS, Divine GW and Brook WB. Depression and level of functioning in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 1992; 37: 539-543.

Behan PO and Bakheit AMO. Clinical spectrum of postviral fatigue syndrome. British Medical Bulletin 1991; 47: 793-808.

Behan PO and Behan WMH. Postviral fatigue syndrome.

Behan PO and Haniffah BAG. Chronic fatigue syndrome: a possible delayed hazard of pesticide exposure. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S54.

Behan PO Behan WMH and Bell EJ. The postviral fatigue syndrome - an analysis of the findings in 50 cases. Journal of Infection 1985; 10: 211-222.

Behan PO, Behan WMH and Horrobin D. Effect of high doses of essential fatty acids on the postviral syndrome. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1990; 82: 209-216.

Behan PO, Behan WMH, Gow JW, Cavanagh H and Gillespie S. Enteroviruses and postviral fatigue syndrome. In: Bock GR and Whelan J, editors. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Behan PO, Haniffah BAG, Doogan DP and Loudon M. A pilot study of sertraline for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S111.

Behan WMH and Behan PO. The role of viral infection in polymyositis, dermatomyositis and chronic fatigue syndrome. Bailliere's Clinical Neurology 1993; 2: 637-657.

Behan WMH, More IAR and Behan PO. Mitochondrial abnormalities in the postviral fatigue syndrome. Acta Neuropathologica 1991; 83: 61-65.

Bell DS and Concemi PT. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Psychotropic or immunological therapy? CNS Drugs 1994; 1: 348-355.

Bell EJ, McCartney RA and Riding MH. Coxsackie B viruses and myalgic encephalomyelitis. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1988; 81: 329-331.

Bell, DS. The disease of a thousand names. Lyndonville: Pollard Publications, 1991.

Belza BA, Henke CJ, Yelin EH, Epstein WV and Gilliss CL. Correlates of fatigue in older adults with rheumatoid arthritis. Nursing Research 1993; 42: 93-99.


Ben-Sira Z. Affective behavior and perceptions of health professionals. In: Gochman DS, editor. Health behavior. Emerging research perspectives. New York: Plenum Press, 1988: 305-317.

Billings AG, Cronkite RC and Moos RH. Social-environmental factors in unipolar depression: comparisons of depressed patients and nondepressed controls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1983; 92: 119-133.

Bishop GD. Understanding the understanding of illness: lay disease representations. In: Skelton JA and Croyle RT, editors. Mental representation in health and illness. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1991.

Blakely AA, Howard RC, Sosich RM, Murdoch JC, Menkes DB and Spears, GFS. Psychiatric symptoms, personality and ways of coping in chronic fatigue syndrome. Psychological Medicine 1991: 21: 347-362.

Bloom JR. Social support systems and cancer: a conceptual view. In: Cohen J, Cullen JW and Martin LR, editors. Psychosocial aspects of cancer. New York: Raven Press, 1982: 129-149.

Bock GR and Whelan J, editors. Chronic fatigue syndrome. CIBA Foundation Symposium 173. Chichester: Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Bonner D, Ron M, Chalder T, Butler S and Wessely S. Chronic fatigue syndrome: a follow-up study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1994; 57: 617-621.

Bowden ML, Feller I, Tholen D, Davidson TN and James MH. Self-esteem of severely-burned patients. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1980; 61: 449-452.

Bowles NE, Bayston TA, Zhang H-Y, Doyle D, Lane RJM, Cunningham L and Archard LC. Persistence of enterovirus RNA in muscle biopsy samples suggests that some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome result from a previous, inflammatory viral myopathy. Journal of Medicine 1993; 24: 145-160.

Bracken MB and Shepard MJ. Coping and adaptation following acute spinal cord injury: a theoretical analysis. Paraplegia 1980; 18: 74-85.

Braden CJ. Learned self-help response to chronic illness experience: a test of three alternative learning theories. Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice: An International Journal 1990; 4: 23-41.

Bralley, JA and Lord, RS. Treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome with specific amino acid supplementation. Journal of Applied Nutrition 1994; 46: 74-78.

Brennan PL and Moos RH. Life stressors, social resources, and late-life problem drinking. Psychology and Ageing 1990; 5: 491-501.

Breslau N and Davis GC. Chronic stress and major depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 1986; 43: 309-314.

Broadhead WE and Kaplan BH. Social Support and the cancer patient. Implications for future research and clinical care. Cancer 1991; 67: 749-799.

Broadhead WE, Kaplan BH, James SA, Wagner EH, Schoenbach VJ, Grimson R, et al. The epidemiologic evidence for a relationship between social support and health. American Journal of Epidemiology 1983; 117: 521-537.

Brook MG, Bannister BA and Weir WRC. Interferon-a therapy for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1993; 168: 791-792.

Brown GW and Harris TO, editors. Life events and illness. London: Guildford Press, 1989

Brown, GW. Early loss of parent and depression in later life. In: Fisher S and Reason J, editors. Handbook of life stress, cognition and health. Chichester: Wiley & Sons, 1988.

Bruce-Jones WDA, White PD, Thomas JM and Clare AW. The effect of social adversity on the fatigue syndrome, psychiatric disorders and physical recovery, following glandular fever. Psychological Medicine 1994; 24: 651-659.

Bruno RL, Cohen JM, Galski T and Frick NM. The neuroanatomy of post-polio fatigue. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1994b; 75: 498-504.

Bruno RL, Frick NM, Lewis T and Creange SJ. The physiology of post-polio fatigue: a model for post-viral fatigue syndromes and a brain fatigue generator. CFIDS Chronicle 1994a; 7: 36-42.

Bruno RL, Sapolsky R, Zimmerman JR and Frick N. The pathophysiology of post-polio fatigue. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1995; 753: 257-275.

Buchwald D and Komaroff AL. Review of laboratory findings for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Reviews of Infectious Diseases 1991; 13 Suppl 1: S12-S18.

Buchwald D, Cheyne PR, Peterson DL, Henry B, Wormsley SB, Geiger A, et al. A chronic illness characterised by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpes Type 6 infection. Annals of Internal Medicine 1992; 116: 103-113.

Buchwald D, Pearlman T, Kith P and Schmaling K. Gender differences in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1994; 9: 397-401.

Buchwald D. Defining chronic fatigue syndrome. In: Straus, SE, editor. Chronic fatigue syndrome. New York: Marcel Dekker. 1994.

Buddeberg C, Wolf C, Sieber M, Riehl-Emde A, Bergant A, Steiner R et al. Coping strategies and course of disease of breast cancer patients. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 1991; 55: 151-157.

Bukberg J, Penman D and Holland JC. Depression in hospitalised cancer patients. Psychosomatic Medicine 1984; 46: 199-212.

Butler S, Chalder T, Ron M and Wessely S. Cognitive behaviour therapy in chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1991; 54: 153-158.

Buunk BP and Hoorens V. Social support and stress: the role of social comparison and social exchange processes. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 1992; 31: 445-457.

Calabrese L, Danao T, Camara E, and Wilke W. Chronic fatigue syndrome. American Family Physician 1992; 45: 1205-1213.

Calder BD and Warnock PJ. Coxsackie B infection in a Scottish general practice. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1984: 34: 15-19.

Caliguiri M, Murray C, Buchwald D, Levine H, Cheney P, Peterson D, et al. Phenotype and functional deficiency of natural killer cells in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Immunology 1987; 139: 3306-3313.

Carroll BT, Kathol RG, Noyes R, Wald TG and Clamon GH. Screening for depression and anxiety in cancer patients using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. General Hospital Psychiatry 1993; 15: 69-74.

Carver CS, Scheier MF and Weintraub, JK. Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1989; 56: 267-283.

Cassel EJ. The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. New England Journal of Medicine 1982; 306: 639-645.

Cassel J. The contribution of the social environment to host resistance. American Journal of Epidemiology 1976; 104: 107-123.

Cassileth BR, Lusk EJ, Strouse TB, Miller DS, Brown LL, Cross PA, and Tenaglia AN. Psychological status in chronic illness. A comparative analysis in six diagnostic groups. New England Journal of Medicine 1984; 311: 506-511.

Cathebras PJ, Robbins JM, Kirmayer LJ and Hayton BC. Fatigue in primary care: prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, illness behaviour, and outcome. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1992; 7: 276-286.

Cavanaugh SA. Depression in the medically ill. In: Judd FK, Burrows GD and Lipsett DR, editors. Handbook of studies on general hospital psychiatry. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1991.

Cavanaugh SA. Diagnosing depression in the hospitalised patient with chronic medical illness. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 1984; 45: 13-17.

Chao CC, DeLahunt M, Hu S, Close K and Peterson PK. Immunologically mediated fatigue - a murine model. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology 1992; 64: 161-166.

Chao CC, Gallagher M, Phair J and Peterson PK. Serum neopterin and interleukin-6 levels in chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Infectious Diseases 1990; 162: 1412-1413.

Charmaz, K. Loss of self: a fundamental form of suffering in the chronically ill. Sociology of Health and Illness 1983; 5: 168-195.

Cheney PR, Dorman SE and Bell DS. Interleukin-2 and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Annals of Internal Medicine 1989; 110: 321.

Cheney, PR. Evidence for T-cell activation by soluble IL-2-R and T8-R in the chronic fatigue syndrome. In: Hyde B, Goldstein J and Levine P, editors. Clinical and scientific basis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Ottawa: Nightingale Research Foundation, 1992: 618-622.

Chester AC and Levine PH. Concurrent sick building syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome: epidemic neuromyasthenia revisited. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S43-S48.

Chester AC. Hypothesis: the nasal fatigue reflex. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 1993; 28: 76-83.

Chetverikova LK, Frolov BA, Kramskaya TA and Polyak RY. Experimental influenza infection: influence of stress. Acta Virologica 1987; 31: 424-433.

Christman NJ, McConnell EA, Pfeiffer C, Webster KK, Schmitt M and Ries J. Uncertainty, coping and distress following myocardial infarction: transition from hospital to home. Research in Nursing and Health 1988; 11: 71-82.

Clark DC, Cavanaugh S and Gibbons RD. The core symptoms of depression in medical and psychiatric patients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1983; 171: 705-713.

Clark MR, Katon W, Russo J, Kith P, Sintay M and Buchwald D. Chronic fatigue: risk factors for symptom persistence in a 2½ year follow-up study. American Journal of Medicine 1995; 98: 187-195.

Cleare AJ, Bearn J, Allain T, McGregor A, Wessely S, Murray RM and O'Keane V. Contrasting neuroendocrine responses in depression and chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Affective Disorders 1995; 35: 283-289.

Clements GB, McGarry F, Nairn C and Galbraith DN. Detection of enterovirus-specific RNA in serum: the relationship to chronic fatigue. Journal of Medical Virology 1995; 45: 156-161.

Cluff, LE. Medical aspects of delayed convalescence. Reviews of Infectious Diseases 1991; 13 Suppl 1: S138-S140.

Cohen F and Lazarus RS. Coping with the stresses of illness. In: Stone GC, Cohen F, Adler NE and Associates, editors. Health psychology - a handbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979.

Cohen S and Wills TA. Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin 1985; 98: 310-357.

Cohen S, Tyrrell DAJ and Smith AP. Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold. New England Journal of Medicine 1991; 325: 606-612.

Comaroff J and Maquire P. Ambiguity and the search for meaning: childhood leukaemia in the modern clinical context. Social Science and Medicine 1981; 15B: 115-123.

Connolly S, Smith DG, Doyle D and Fowler CJ. Chronic fatigue: electromyographic and neuropathological evaluation. Journal of Neurology 1993; 240: 435-438.

Cope H, David A and Mann A. 'Maybe it's a virus?': beliefs about viruses, symptom attributional style and psychological health. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1994b; 38: 89-98.

Cope H, David A, Pelosi A and Mann A. Predictors of chronic 'postviral' fatigue. Lancet 1994a; 344: 864-868.

Costa DC, Gacinovic S, Tannock C and Brostoff J. Brain stem SPET studies in normals, M.E./CFS and depression. Nuclear Medicine Communications 1994; 15: 252-253.

Costa DC, Tannock C and Brostoff J. Brainstem perfusion is impaired in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 1995; 88: 767-773.

Counte MA, Bieliauskas LA and Pavlou M. Stress and personal attitudes in chronic illness. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1983; 64: 272-275.

Cox DL and Findley LJ. Is chronic fatigue syndrome treatable in an NHS environment? Clinical Rehabilitation 1994; 8: 76-80.

Cox IM, Campbell MJ and Dowson D. Red blood cell magnesium levels and the chronic fatigue syndrome (M.E.): a case-control study and a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 1991; 337: 757-760.

Coyle CP and Roberge JJ. The psychometric properties of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) when used with adults with physical disabilities. Psychology and Health 1992; 7: 69-81.

Coyle PK, Krupp LB, Doscher C and Amin K. Borrelia burgdorferi reactivity in patients with severe persistent fatigue who are from a region in which Lyme disease is endemic. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1994; 18 Suppl 1: S24-S27.

Coyne JC, Aldwin C and Lazarus RS. Depression and coping in stressful episodes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1981; 90: 439-447.

Craig AR, Hancock KM and Dickson HG. Spinal cord injury: a search for determinants of depression two years after the event. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 1994; 33: 221-230.

Craig AR, Hancock KM, Dickson H, Martin J and Chang E. Psychological consequences of spinal injury: a review of the literature. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1990; 24: 418-425.

Cramer, D. Introducing statistics for social research. London: Routledge, 1994.

CRC Critical Reviews in Neurobiology 1988; 4: 157-178.

Crowley N, Nelson M and Stovin S. Epidemiological aspects of an outbreak of encephalomyelitis at the Royal Free Hospital in the Summer of 1955. Journal of Hygiene (Cambridge) 1957; 55: 102-122.

Cummings, Jl. Depression and Parkinson's Disease: a review. American Journal of Psychiatry 1992; 149: 443-454.

Cunningham AJ, Lockwood GA and Edmonds CV. Which cancer patients benefit most from a brief, group, coping skills program? International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 1993; 23: 383-398.

Cunningham L, Bowles NE, Lane RJM, Dubowitz V and Archard LC. Persistence of enteroviral RNA in chronic fatigue syndrome is associated with the abnormal production of equal amounts of positive and negative strands of enteroviral RNA. Journal of General Virology 1990; 71: 1399-1402.

Dakof GA and Taylor SE. Victim's perceptions of social support: what is helpful from whom? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1990; 58: 80-89.

Dalos NP, Rabins PV, Brooks BR and O'Donnell P. Disease activity and emotional state in multiple sclerosis. Annals of Neurology 1983; 13: 573-577.

Dalrymple T. Myalgic encephalomyelitis - my eye. Medical Monitor 1992; 5: 28.

Daugherty SA, Henry BE, Peterson DL, Swarts RL, Bastein S and Thomas S. Chronic fatigue syndrome in Northern Nevada. Reviews of Infectious Diseases 1991; 13 Suppl 1: S39-44.

Davey, GCL, Tallis F and Hodgson S. The relationship between information-seeking and information-avoiding coping styles and the reporting of psychological and physical symptoms. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1993: 37: 333-344.

David A and Wessely S. Chronic fatigue, M.E., and ICD-10. Lancet 1993; 342: 1247-1248.

David A, Pelosi A, McDonald E, Stephens D, Ledger D, Rathbone R and Mann A. Tired, weak, or in need of rest: fatigue among general practice attenders. British Medical Journal 1990; 301: 1199-1202.

David AS. Postviral fatigue syndrome and psychiatry. British Medical Bulletin 1991; 47, 966-988.

Davidoff GN, Roth EJ and Richards JS. Cognitive deficits in spinal cord injury: epidemiology and outcome. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1992; 73: 275-284.

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Davis, F. Uncertainty in medical prognosis. Clinical and functional. American Journal of Sociology 1960-1; 66: 41-47.

Dawes B. What does M.E. mean to me: a holistic viewpoint. Maternal and Child Health 1991, December: 380-384.

Deale A and David AS. Chronic fatigue syndrome: evaluation and management. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 1994; 2: 189-194.

DeFreitas E, Hilliard B, Cheney PR, Bell DS, Kiggundu E, Sankey D, et al. Retroviral sequences related to human T-lymphotropic virus type II in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 1991; 88: 2922-2926.

DeLuca J, Johnson SK and Natelson BH. Information processing efficiency in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis. Archives of Neurology 1993; 50: 301-304.

DeLuca J, Johnson SK, Belowicz D and Natelson, BH. Neuropsychological impairments in chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and depression. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1995; 58: 38-43.

Demitrack MA, Dale JK, Straus SE, Laue L, Listwalk SJ, Kruesi MJP, et al. Evidence for impaired activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 1991; 73: 1224-1234.

Denz-Penhey H and Murdoch JC. Service delivery for people with chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot action research study. Family Practice 1993; 10: 14-18.

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DeVellis BM. Depression in rheumatological diseases. Bailliere's Clinical Rheumatology 1993; 7: 241-257.

Devins GM, Edworthy SM, Guthrie NG and Martin L. Illness intrusiveness in rheumatoid arthritis: differential impact on depressive symptoms over the adult lifespan. Journal of Rheumatology 1992; 19: 709-715.

Devins GM, Edworthy SM, Paul LC and Mandin H, Seland TP and Klein GM. Illness intrusiveness and depressive symptoms over the adult years: is there a differential impact across chronic conditions? Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 1993b; 25: 400-413.

Devins GM, Edworthy SM, Seland TP, Klein GM, Paul LC and Mandin H. Differences in illness intrusiveness across rheumatoid arthritis, end-stage renal disease, and multiple sclerosis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1993a; 181: 377-381.

Devins GM, Seland TP, Klein G, Edworthy SM and Saary MJ. Stability and determinants of psychosocial well-being in multiple sclerosis. Rehabilitation Psychology 1993c; 38: 11-26.

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Dimond M. Social adaptation of the chronically ill. In: Mechanic D, editor. Handbook of health, health care and the health professions. New York: The Free Press, 1983.

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Donoghue PJ and Siegel ME. Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired. Living with Invisible Chronic Illness. London: W.W. Norton, 1993.

Douli V, Brostoff J, Costa CD, Kouris K and Ell PJ. rCBF/SPET in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis. Abstracts of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society, No. 50. Nuclear Medicine Communications 1992; 13: 4.

Dowsett EG and Welsby PD. Conversation Piece. Post-graduate Medical Journal 1992; 68: 63-65.

Dowsett EG, Ramsay AM, McCartney RA and Bell EJ. Myalgic encephalomyelitis - a persistent enteroviral infection? Postgraduate Medical Journal 1990; 66: 526-530.

Dowsett EG. Human enteroviral infections. Journal of Hospital Infection 1988; 11: 103-115.

Dowson D. The treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome by complementary medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 1993; 1: 9-13.

Durndell A. Second report to Health and Safety Committee on post viral syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis at Glasgow College. August 1989.

Dutta-Roy AK. Effect of Efamol evening primrose oil feeding on erythrocyte membrane properties in diabetes mellitus. In: Horrobin, DF, editor. Omega-6 essential fatty acids: pathophysiology and roles in clinical medicine. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1990.

Dutton DG. Depression/somatization explanations for the chronic fatigue syndrome: a critical review. In: Hyde BM, Goldstein J and Levine P, editors. The clinical and scientific basis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Ottawa: The Nightingale Research Foundation, 1992.

Earll L. Psychological aspects of neurological illness. In: Broome AK, editor. Health psychology. London: Chapman and Hall, 1989.

Editorial. British Medical Journal 1978; 1: 1436-1437.

Ehmann TS, Beninger RJ, Gawel MJ and Riopelle RJ. Coping, social support, and depressive symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 1990; 3: 85-90.

Ell K, Nishimoto R, Mediansky L, Mantell J and Hamovitch M. Social relations, social support and survival among patients with cancer. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1992; 36: 531-541.

Elliott TR, Herrick SM, Witty TE, Godshall F and Spruell M. Social relationships and psychosocial impairment of persons with spinal cord injury. Psychology and Health 1992; 7: 55-67.

Elnicki, DM., Shockcor, WT., Brick, JE and Beynon, D. Evaluating the complaint of fatigue in primary care: diagnoses and outcomes. American Journal of Medicine 1992; 93: 303-306.

English, TL. Skeptical of skeptics. Journal of the American Medical Association 1991; 265: 964.

Evans PD and Edgerton N. Life events and mood as predictors of the common cold. British Journal of Medical Psychology 1991; 64: 35-44.

Faas RJE. Het chronische-moeheidsyndroom. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 1992; 136: 2037.

Fallowfield L. The Quality of Life. The Missing Measurement in Health Care. London: Souvenir Press, 1990.

Faucett J and Levine JD. Influences of social relationships, disease characteristics, and personality on the symptoms of chronic pain and depression. Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain 1990; Suppl 5: S334, Abstract 640.

Fawzy IF, Cousins N, Fawzy NW, Kemeny ME, Elashoff R and Morton D. A structured psychiatric intervention for cancer patients. I. Changes over time in methods of coping and affective disturbance. Archives of General Psychiatry 1990b; 47: 720-725.

Fawzy IF, Kemeny ME, Fawzy NW, Elashoff R, Morton D, Cousins N and Fahy JL. A structured psychiatric intervention for cancer patients. II. Changes over time in immunological measures. Archives of Psychiatry 1990a; 47: 729-735.

Fekety R. Infection and chronic fatigue syndrome. In: Straus SE, editor. Chronic fatigue syndrome. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994.

Felton BJ and Revenson TA. Coping with chronic illness: a study of illness controllability and the influence of coping strategies on psychological adjustment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1984; 32: 343-353.

Fiori J, Coppel DB, Becker J and Cox GB. Social support as a multifaceted concept: examination of important dimensions for adjustment. American Journal of Community Psychology 1986; 14: 93-111.

Fisher Portwood M. Chronic fatigue syndrome - a diagnosis for consideration. Nurse Practitioner 1988; 13: 11-23.

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