Unprecedented numbers of cases of MPD have been diagnosed, mainly in North America,
since 1957. Widespread publicity for the concept makes it uncertain whether any case can …

… The Excesses of an Improbable Concept - August Piper, Harold Merskey, 2004 …
Merskey H. Multiple personality disorder and false memory syndrome. Br J Psychiatry 1995;166:281–3. …

… In 100 psychiatric patients with chronic pain Merskey [23] found that pain was bilateral and
… At the same time and in the same department where Merskey was studying persistent pain, …

Presents a description of chronic pain syndromes and definitions of pain terms. A coding
system is presented for primary headache syndromes and pain of the psychological origin in …

• Problems in the literature in the appraisal of brain deep white-matter changes are
considered. The identification of the changes with Binswanger's disease alone is rejected, and …

Chronic pain and depression often coexist, but there is still uncertainty about the nature of this
relationship. Virtually all the available data are cross-sectional and therefore do not clarify …

Preliminary data support the hypothesis that the decline of all higher cognitive functions in
senile dementia of the Alzheimer type is attributable to histopathological changes in the …

Background The use of opioid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain is controversial. Some
surveys report good pain relief and improvement in performance while others suggest a …

To study the effects of amitriptyline in treating postherpetic neuralgia, 24 patients were randomly
assigned to either drug or placebo in a double-blind crossover study. We found good to …

We report here follow-up data on subjects who were examined in two surveys conducted by
the United States Center for Health Statistics at an interval of 8 years. The first survey was …