Presentation
In the essay, Old wine in new bottles: neurasthenia and ' ME ', he wrote: "Evidence is presented of the striking resonances between neurasthenia and ME. [me-pedia.org]
Poster session presented at the Eighth AnnualConvention of the American Psychological Society; Toronto, Ontario; August,1996. 17. Cheung FM. Conceptualization of psychiatric illness andhelp-seeking behavior among Chinese. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V. American Psychiatric Pub. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-89042-656-2. ^ Marcus, G (1998-01-26). "One Step Back; Where Are the Elixirs of Yesteryear When We Hurt?". [en.wikipedia.org]
Neurologic
- Irritability
[…] noun mass noun dated An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. [lexico.com]
Fatigue is the essential symptom for both diagnoses;others that overlap include muscle pain, headaches, inability to concentrate,irritability, and sleep disturbance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] chronic abnormal fatigability, moderate depression, inability to concentrate, loss of appetite, insomnia, and other symptoms. [3] The secondary symptoms were ill-defined and abundant, including headaches, muscle aches and pain, dizziness, weight loss, irritability [me-pedia.org]
'Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilisation was causing a host of ills - everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. [dailymail.co.uk]
Freud included a variety of physical symptoms into this category, including fatigue, dyspepsia with flatulence, and indications of intra-cranial pressure and spinal irritation.[8] In common with some other people of the time[who?] [en.wikipedia.org]
Treatment
Treatment[edit] Beard, with his partner A.D. Rockwell, advocated first electrotherapy and then increasingly experimental treatments for people with neurasthenia, a position that was controversial. [en.wikipedia.org]
‘Whether it is a lung disease or neurasthenia, the symptoms and treatment methods are not uniform.’ [lexico.com]
This treatment, which has its basis inZen Buddhism, is aimed at breaking the cycle of sensitivity and anxiety (see www.morita-therapy.org ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
However, electrotherapy and more experimental treatments were also advocated, along with a drug called 'Americantitis Elixir'. [dailymail.co.uk]
It is used exclusively in adult patients for the treatment of anxiety disorders and neurasthenia. O sono prolongado causa doenças graves, como a neurastenia. The long-term sleep well causes severe illness such as neurasthenia. [context.reverso.net]
Etiology
China In the 1983 version of Chinese-English Terminology of TraditionalChinese Medicine, the etiology of neurasthenia is described as a decreasein vital energy ( qi ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Epidemiology
They found that those students in whom neurasthenia wasdiagnosed had experienced symptoms of depression, as measured by the Centerfor Epidemiological Studies-DepressionScale. 14 Zheng and colleagues studied data from the Chinese American PsychiatricEpidemiological [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Pathophysiology
Weir Mitchell, wrote the book, Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked, detailing his belief that the condition was a result of the demands of modern life in the industrial era. [2] The term began to transition out of use in medical pathophysiology [me-pedia.org]
Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Factsabout Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Atlanta, GA: US Dept of Healthand Human Services; 1994. 8. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]