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  1. ME (Ramsay) and ME-International Case Criteria (ME-ICC): two distinct clinical entities

    Article • Journal of Translational Medicine, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  2. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Chronic Fatigue: Three Distinct Entities Requiring Complete Different Approaches

    Article • Current Rheumatology Reports, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  3. Letter to the Editor: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Definitions, Similarities, and Differences

    Article • Clinical Therapeutics, May 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  4. Cognitive-behavorial and graded exercise therapies for chronic fatigue (syndrome) are associated with lower levels of work/school attendance

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Medicine, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  5. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or What? The International Consensus Criteria

    Article • Diagnostics, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  6. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or What? An Operational Definition

    Article • Diagnostics, September 2018, MDPI AG

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  7. Letter to the Editor

    Article • Fatigue Biomedicine Health & Behavior, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  8. Cognitive–behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: neither efficacious nor safe

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, July 2018, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  9. Dutch Health Council Advisory Report on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Taking the Wrong Turn

    Article • Diagnostics, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  10. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease: Three Distinct Clinical Entities

    Article • Challenges, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  11. Graded exercise self-help for chronic fatigue syndrome in GETSET

    Article • The Lancet, March 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  12. Letter to the Editor

    Article • Fatigue Biomedicine Health & Behavior, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  13. Comment on: Differing case definitions point to the need for an accurate diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Article • Fatigue Biomedicine Health & Behavior, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  14. The effects of therapies for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome should be assessed using objective measures

    Article • Medical Research and Innovations, January 2017, Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd.

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  15. Dangerous exercise. The detrimental effects of exertion and orthostatic stress in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research, January 2017, Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd.

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  16. An analysis of Dutch hallmark studies confirms the outcome of the PACE trial: cognitive behaviour therapy with a graded activity protocol is not effective for chronic fatigue syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

    Article • General Medicine Open, January 2017, Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd.

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  17. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome or systemic exercise intolerance disease: What’s in a name?

    Article • Asian Journal of Psychiatry, October 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  18. Replacing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Systemic Exercise Intolerance Disease Is Not the Way forward

    Article • Diagnostics, February 2016, MDPI AG

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  19. PACE: CBT and GET are not rehabilitative therapies

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, February 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  20. Letter to the Editor

    Article • Fatigue Biomedicine Health & Behavior, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  21. A critical analysis of the proposal of the Institute of Medicine to replace myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome by a new diagnostic entity called systemic exertion intolerance disease

    Article • Current Medical Research and Opinion, May 2015, Informa Healthcare

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  22. Post-exertional malaise in chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, April 2015, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  23. Commentary on Jason et al. (2015): towards separate empirical case definitions of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  24. Objective Evidence of Post-exertional “Malaise” in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Article • Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies, January 2015, OMICS Publishing Group

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  25. The 4I Hypothesis: A Neuro-Immunological Explanation for Characteristic Symptoms of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Article • International Journal of Neurology Research, January 2015, ACT Publishing Group

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  26. Accurate diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome based upon objective test methods for characteristic symptoms

    Article • World Journal of Methodology, January 2015, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  27. Care for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) patients in Belgium: time for a paradigm shift

    Article • Acta Clinica Belgica, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  28. A multidisciplinary network for the care of abnormal fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome in the provinces of East and West Flanders in Belgium

    Article • Acta Clinica Belgica, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  29. A definition of recovery in myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome should be based upon objective measures

    Article • Quality of Life Research, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  30. Underperformance of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients at neurocognitive tests should be assessed objectively without an a priori judgment about the etiology

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, April 2014, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  31. The status of and future research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: the need of accurate diagnosis, objective assessment, and acknowledging biological and clinical subgroups

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, March 2014, Frontiers

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  32. Comment and reply on: ME is a distinct diagnostic entity, not part of a chronic fatigue spectrum

    Article • Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics, May 2013, Informa Healthcare

    Mr Frank NM Twisk, George Anderson

  33. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), and Chronic Fatigue (CF) are distinguished accurately: Results of supervised learning techniques applied on clinical and inflammatory data

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2012, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  34. Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy have negative effects in ME and CFS

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Investigation, October 2012, Wiley

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  35. IgM-mediated autoimmune responses directed against anchorage epitopes are greater in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) than in major depression

    Article • Metabolic Brain Disease, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  36. Inflammation and activation of cell-mediated immunity in chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • Pharmacological Reports, March 2012, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  37. Increased IgA responses to the LPS of commensal bacteria is associated with inflammation and activation of cell-mediated immunity in chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, February 2012, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  38. Evidence for inflammation and activation of cell-mediated immunity in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Increased interleukin-1, tumor necrosis factor-α, PMN-elastase, lysozyme and neopterin

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, February 2012, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  39. Inflammatory and Cell-Mediated Immune Biomarkers in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Depression: Inflammatory Markers Are Higher in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome than in Depression

    Article • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, January 2012, Karger Publishers

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  40. ME/CVS, de psychotherapeut en de (on)macht van het evidencebeest

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Psychotherapie, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  41. Gradert treningsterapi kan ha skadelige effekter

    Article • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, January 2011, Norwegian Medical Association

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  42. Treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a multisystem disease, should target the pathophysiological aberrations (inflammatory and oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways), not the psychosocial “barriers” for a new eq...

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, July 2010, Elsevier

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  43. Chronic fatigue syndrome: Harvey and Wessely's (bio)psychosocial model versus a bio(psychosocial) model based on inflammatory and oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways

    Article • BMC Medicine, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Frank NM Twisk

  44. Letter to the Editor: Plausible explanations for neurocognitive deficits in ME/CFS, aggravation of neurocognitive impairment induced by exertion

    Article • Psychological Medicine, April 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Mr Frank NM Twisk