Recent research developments

A recent Italian study of 108 hospitalised COVID-19 patients conducted by Veria Vacchiano and her colleagues at the University of Bologna and published online in Neurological Sciences, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-020-04525-z, demonstrated a significant association between headache and muscle pain. The researchers interpreted their findings by reference to Dr. Marlowe’s earlier study https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3999(92)90110-n demonstrating headache sufferers to …

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In two large studies of non-clinical participants (N = 600), published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in 2020, Dr. Nicholas Marlowe and his colleagues developed the Ontological Insecurity Scale (OIS-34), the first psychometrically sound measure of the degree of coherence and integrity attaching to the sense of self. Having operationalised the construct, the researchers …

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