• The diagnosis in this case, the speaker said, lay between traumatic neurasthenia, traumatic hysteria. (google.dk)
  • Dr. Nammack, in closing, said that formerly considerable stress had been laid upon the condition of the visual fields as a differential point between traumatic neurasthenia and hysteria, but that now this had been pretty much abandoned. (google.dk)
  • A few years ago, they might've engaged in cutting, become anorexic, developed multiple personality disorder, or, way back when, been diagnosed as suffering from "neurasthenia" or "hysteria. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It is thus different from older terms like "hysteria" or "neurasthenia" in important ways. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
  • During this era, mild chronic or intermittent malaria infection had also become associated with symptoms of "neurasthenia", including depression, irritability, anxiety, and insomnia [ 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although also found in the ICD, its diagnosis takes a particular form in China, called 'shenjing shuairuo', which emphasizes somatic (bodily) complaints as well as fatigue or depressed feelings. (wikipedia.org)
  • The key feature of neurasthenia is mental excitement, aneuria and physical fatigue with any kind of soma discomfortableness and dyssomnia but has no foundation of structure disease. (tcmwindow.com)
  • Symptoms of neurasthenia are very similar to those of chronic fatigue syndrome, neurosis, mood disorders, and somatoform disorders, so much so that their distinction in clinical classifications is not as sharp, with the risk that patients will not be treated adequately. (forcardslovers.com)
  • Neurasthenia or chronic fatigue syndrome? (forcardslovers.com)
  • In particular, the sharing of symptoms with the later chronic fatigue syndrome has led some researchers to regard the latter as a "modern" version of XNUMXth century neurasthenia. (forcardslovers.com)
  • Neurasthenia and chronic fatigue syndrome also share causes, as both appear after periods of high stress and worry and can severely compromise quality of life. (forcardslovers.com)
  • Shenjing shuairuo" ("weakness of the central nervous system" in Mandarin Chinese) is actually a syndrome that incorporates the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine and the Western diagnosis of neurasthenia (physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, headache, pain, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbances and memory loss). (forcardslovers.com)
  • I have diagnoses of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) and CFS. (blogspot.com)
  • Because the severity of symptoms, as well as maternal mortality, is highest in the first 2 years following onset of myasthenia gravis, it is advisable for women to delay pregnancy for at least 2 years following diagnosis. (medscape.com)
  • [14] Diagnosis is based on the person's symptoms because no confirmed diagnostic test is available. (wikipedia.org)
  • Patients with endometriosis who had longer diagnostic delays had more pre-diagnosis endometriosis-related symptoms and higher pre-diagnosis healthcare utilization and costs compared with patients who were diagnosed earlier after symptom onset, providing evidence in support of earlier diagnosis. (springer.com)
  • Endometriosis diagnosis often presents challenges as symptoms are nonspecific and overlap with other gynecologic, urologic, and gastrointestinal issues resulting in long diagnostic delays. (springer.com)
  • Even after the diagnosis was more widely accepted among doctors, starting around 1900, many illnesses with symptoms fitting with anorexia were diagnosed as other conditions. (grinnell.edu)
  • Furthermore, these symptoms must have begun at least 6 months prior to a diagnosis. (ndnr.com)
  • Neurasthenia is a less stigmatizing diagnosis than depression in China, being conceptually distinct from psychiatric labels, and is said to fit well with a tendency to express emotional issues in somatic terms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Those with depression were often given other diagnoses such as neurasthenia. (psychiatrist.com)
  • Instead, a newer approach involving development of software packages with codified medical knowledge and logical decision support systems to aid assessment, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders could be a logical alternative [ 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • With the broader aims of codifying medical knowledge, and providing an internet-based decision support system for diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders, a pilot telepsychiatric project is underway at the department of psychiatry of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Compared to World War II, through which Western military psychiatry established itself as a legitimate field of medicine, and the Vietnam War, whose best-known "psychiatric" product is perhaps the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the Korean War remains the least explored conflict in terms of its impact on the development of both military and civilian psychiatry. (medhist.or.kr)
  • A mental disorder , also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder , is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life. (alchetron.com)
  • Another reason that conversion disorder was important to me, was that hysteria's presence in our psychiatric bible was fortuitously discarded, leaving the diagnosis of conversion disorder to hold its last traces. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • Many patients were described after the First World War and the condition was often referred to as neurasthenia or effort syndrome. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Although the term CFS was first used in 1988, the disorder has been well described since at least the mid 1700s but has had different names (eg, febricula, neurasthenia, chronic brucellosis, effort syndrome). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Through much of this three-part essay series, I've outlined the ways in which "nerves," "neurasthenia," and "conversion" can be read in rebellion against a technocratic view of the body as an objectively knowable machine. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
  • Neurasthenia is a degeneration of cerebration ability resulted from psychic uapprehensiveness or trauma, long-term mental work load and insufficient sleep. (tcmwindow.com)
  • The concept of neurasthenia as a nervous system disorder is also said to fit well with the traditional Chinese epistemology of disease causation on the basis of disharmony of vital organs and imbalance of qi. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chinese: 中国精神疾病分类方案与诊断标准), published by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP), is a clinical guide used in China for the diagnosis of mental disorders (wikipedia.org)
  • However, it has a unique definition of some disorders, includes an additional 40 or so culturally-related diagnoses, and lacks certain conditions recognised in other parts of the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, many historians are researching these early eating disorders, in search of a link between these cases and the modern diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. (grinnell.edu)
  • Despite changes in the diagnosis and perceptions of eating disorders, many things have remained constant. (grinnell.edu)
  • These constants can be used to interpret early examples of eating disorders, and how they fit with the anorexia nervosa diagnosis. (grinnell.edu)
  • 0.6) between diagnoses generated by the tool and consultants' diagnoses, for all the disorders except dysthymia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1,2 IBS is a diagnosis of exclusion, often given after other testing has ruled out more severe gastrointestinal disorders like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. (ndnr.com)
  • For this reason, neurasthenia remains central to diagnosis in Asian countries, although other disorders may be present at the same time. (forcardslovers.com)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders / edited by Robert O. Pasnau. (who.int)
  • With a prolonged course of the disease, the risk of complications ( anemia, neurasthenia, anal fissure, etc. ) increases. (newshunt360.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the economic impact of diagnostic delays on pre-diagnosis healthcare utilization and costs among patients with endometriosis. (springer.com)
  • This was a retrospective database study of adult patients with a diagnosis of endometriosis from 1 January 2004 to 31 July 2016. (springer.com)
  • Patients had continuous health plan enrollment 60 months prior to and 12 months following the earliest endometriosis diagnosis and ≥ 1 pre-diagnosis endometriosis symptom (dyspareunia, generalized pelvic pain, abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, or infertility). (springer.com)
  • Patients were assigned to short (≤ 1 year), intermediate (1-3 years), or long (3-5 years) delay cohorts based on the length of their diagnostic delay (time from first symptom to diagnosis). (springer.com)
  • Patients with intermediate or long diagnostic delays had consistently more all-cause and endometriosis-related emergency visits and inpatient hospitalizations in the pre-diagnosis period than patients with short delays. (springer.com)
  • Irritable bowel syndrome, also known as IBS, is a diagnosis given to patients suffering from gastrointestinal pain and altered bowel habits without any detectable structural or biochemical abnormalities. (ndnr.com)
  • Medical almanacs in particular were an important facet of premodern medicine as doctors took astrological information into consideration in the diagnosis and treatment of their patients. (mcgill.ca)
  • In the latter stages, a good clinical knowledge is required and differential diagnosis is essential to the adequate treatment and care of disabled workers. (iloencyclopaedia.org)
  • To date there is no known specific medical diagnostic test to determine or confirm a correct diagnosis nor is there any specific treatment for this condition. (investinme.org)
  • Much effort of clinicians is directed towards establishing a diagnosis because once we know what is going on, then the management (treatment) of the condition may become more apparent. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • At the final stage of diagnosis, treatment tactics are selected. (newshunt360.com)
  • Examples of such pathology include diagnoses such as congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolism, and acute myocardial infarction. (medscape.com)
  • Neurasthenia is seen more commonly in intellectual workers. (tcmwindow.com)
  • Diagnosis CFS is commonly used in the western countries but not in Malaysia or other parts of Asia. (afpm.org.my)
  • 11 Some have suggested that US culture tends to elevate depressive symptomatology to disorder status too readily, while Chinese culture still may minimize or somatize depressive disorder diagnoses to an extent. (psychiatrist.com)
  • The anorexia nervosa diagnosis did not exist until 1694, and even so, the diagnosis did not gain any traction until a new paper on the disorder was published in 1873. (grinnell.edu)
  • Both of these list categories of disorder and provide standardized criteria for diagnosis. (alchetron.com)
  • I have recently been told that the DSM VI is considering eradicating the diagnosis of conversion disorder, seemingly prancing after Freud's own scotoma. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • In this final section, I will look at the diagnosis and terminology of conversion disorder in the modern medical era. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
  • Conversion, he says, left the personality of the hysteric intact (the other diagnoses have a more eroding effect), showing Freud how the talking cure could do its work, as the analyst listened for these traces of the repressed. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • Reported long term effects of chronic gasoline inhalation are anorexia, body weight loss, muscular weakness, cramps and neurasthenia. (cdc.gov)
  • If they express doubt about her diagnosis of rapid-onset dysphoria (as it's called) and voice concern about her readiness to undergo irreversible treatments with scarcely a pause for thought, she may cut off all family contact. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Neurasthenia is dropped in the DSM-111 and DSM-1V but is still retained in the 10th International Classification of Disease. (afpm.org.my)
  • The Literature of Prescription showcases the doctors who defined neurasthenia, the remedies people purchased to assuage it, and the efforts of one patient, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to challenge the legitimacy of the disease and the therapy her doctor prescribed. (mcgill.ca)
  • The diagnostic tool of the application was examined among 100 consecutive consenting adult outpatients, by comparing it with detailed semi-structured clinical assessments led by a consultant psychiatrist, on accuracy of diagnoses generated, and examining the feasibility of its use. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This would be called a clinical diagnosis of meningitis. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • By contrast, FND-focused websites such as NeuroSymptoms.org recommend a straightforward approach in discussing the diagnosis as well as intensive rehabilitation, ideally in an inpatient multidisciplinary setting. (medicalhealthhumanities.com)
  • It contains many similarities with its Western counterparts for diagnosis, like the duration of one month, as mentioned in the ICD-10. (wikipedia.org)
  • Diagnoses that are more specific to Chinese or Asian culture, though they may also be outlined in the ICD (or DSM glossary section), include: Koro or Genital retraction syndrome: excessive fear of the genitals (and also breasts in women) shrinking or drawing back into the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • We customize your diagnosis based on syndrome differentiation. (tcmwindow.com)
  • Recognising a syndrome allows the attending clinician to suspect a diagnosis and they will then usually attempt to confirm the diagnosis by performing a number of investigations. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • CFS/ME is an unspecific condition for which it has been difficult to establish objective medical criteria, and the CFS/ME diagnosis has been debated in the medical community for many years [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The biography of neurasthenia is chronicled against a broader backdrop that illuminates significant developments in the rise of modern psychiatry, varied forms of patient narratives and activism, and how gendered expectations can frame, at times elusively, medical thinking, diagnosis, and care. (mcgill.ca)
  • A final focus on the diagnosis of General Paralysis of the Insane demonstrates the social construction of medical thinking. (manchesterhive.com)
  • There are always a lot of them in his laboratory, and they tell me that his diagnoses are 100 percent correct. (frequencyspecific.com)
  • Neurasthenia then peaked in the early 20th century, later spreading to Asian countries, then reappearing in Western countries in the mid-20th century and reaching high levels in the Chinese population in the late 1980s. (forcardslovers.com)
  • Those well-known sufferers were in addition to the 240,000 people who reportedly died from neurasthenia annually back in the 1920s. (discourseblog.com)
  • Now, most of them, such as neurasthenia and the various trains of morbid thought which result from back-strain, can be recognized at their true value by any physician who is reasonably experienced and careful. (wikisource.org)
  • What was important for Freud early on was the stable instability of conversion in contrast to obsessional neurosis, neurasthenia, phobia, melancholia, and so on. (journal-psychoanalysis.eu)
  • reported an average diagnostic delay of 4.4 years with 89% of diagnoses made by obstetricians/gynecologists [ 13 ]. (springer.com)
  • The aim of the current study was to estimate sex- and age-specific incidence rates of CFS/ME in Norway during a five-year period, using data from a nationwide registry containing diagnoses assigned by Norwegian specialist health care services (hospitals and outpatient clinics). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Later, a specific organism in the cerebro-spinal fluid may be identified, refining the diagnosis to one of, for example, meningococcal meningitis. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Screening studies of adolescent populations have indicated that the mean blood delta-aminolevulinic-acid-dehydrogenase levels may be effectively used in the diagnosis of the condition. (cdc.gov)
  • The condition should then be confirmed by performing a lumbar puncture and if that shows inflammation in the cerebro-spinal fluid obtained then the diagnosis is confirmed. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Healthcare resource utilization and costs were calculated and compared by cohort in the 60-month pre-diagnosis period. (springer.com)