Apathy. Medical search. Frequent questions

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that voter apathy can be traced to political campaigns that focus more on mass marketing than political ideas. (kunc.org)
I set about to do just that and have concluded that the driving force of political polarization in America is from profound voter apathy. (newgeography.com)
Voter apathy refers to individuals not voting in elections because they feel like their participation will not make a difference. (kubatana.net)
Crewe et al (1992) distinguish between voter apathy and voter alienation as the basis of low political motivation. (kubatana.net)
There have been episodes of voter apathy in Zimbabwe elections since 1980. (kubatana.net)
Voter apathy may have reached record low across the nation and certainly here in Lawrence County. (irontontribune.com)
I try very hard to understand voter apathy. (qsaltlake.com)
Similarly, Eremenko said, "There's no such thing as voter apathy. (calgaryjournal.ca)

He dialogues about the nuts and bolts of overcoming apathy and morphing from lethargy to zeal. (familylife.com)

Album Cover Artwork Album cover design for Dope - American Apathy . (f3studios.com)

because you've written a book called Overcoming Apathy . (familylife.com)

Although many patients with pathological apathy also have depression, several studies have shown that the two syndromes are dissociable: apathy can occur independent of depression and vice versa. (wikipedia.org)
The following hours I just felt a total sense of dissociation, apathy and basically depression. (erowid.org)
Apathy is often expressed by people with schizoid personality disorder , depression and schizophrenia . (wikipedia.org)
A 2017 study found that men who began playing American tackle football before age 12 were more likely to have depression, apathy, problems with executive functioning, and behavioral issues in adulthood than their peers who began playing football after age 12 . (bipolarnews.org)
The men reported their own experiences with depression, apathy, cognitive function, and behavioral regulation. (bipolarnews.org)
In a new study by ESM Eurelings and colleague in the journal International Psychogeriatrics , the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein differentiated between older people with symptoms of apathy versus symptoms of depression. (bipolarnews.org)
In this study, we investigated associations between neuropsychiatric symptoms (i.e., apathy, anxiety, and depression) and cerebral atrophy, white matter lesions (WML), beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposition, and cognitive decline in a nondemented sample. (lu.se)
Neuropsychiatric assessments included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Apathy Evaluation Scale. (lu.se)

I was basically so entranced with apathy, sadness, regret and random waves of anxiety that I stopped paying attention to my surroundings or the passing of time. (erowid.org)
Apathy and anxiety were shown related to Aβ deposition and predicted cognitive decline. (lu.se)
To conclude, the associations between apathy and anxiety with Aβ deposition and cognitive decline point to these symptoms as early clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease. (lu.se)

To count as apathy, your symptoms must be serious enough or happen often enough to affect your social life, job, or other parts of your life. (webmd.com)
Before you can treat apathy, see your doctor for a diagnosis to be sure that's what is causing your symptoms. (webmd.com)
Higher levels of C-reactive protein were found in those with symptoms of apathy. (bipolarnews.org)

Apathy falls in the less extreme spectrum of diminished motivation, with abulia in the middle and akinetic mutism being more extreme than both apathy and abulia. (wikipedia.org)
Apathy is when you lack motivation to do things or just don't care much about what's going on around you. (webmd.com)
The American Psychological Association (APA) defines apathy as a "lack of motivation or goal-directed behavior and indifference to one's surroundings. (webmd.com)

Does low turnout signify apathy? (samizdata.net)
Protesters took to the streets in disgust at the ageing extremist's anti-immigration policies and in guilt at the apathy which resulted in a record low turnout. (blogspot.com)

Poems containing the term: Apathy and Enthusiasm. (poetry.com)
Apathy and Enthusiasm. (poetry.com)
We've found 1 poem title matching Apathy and Enthusiasm. . (poetry.com)
Apathy is defined as "a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern" - not + feeling or without + suffering . (whitneyhess.com)

At the moment it's hard to say how many unvaccinated people currently fall into the apathy group versus the hesitancy group. (sciencealert.com)

medical citation needed] Apathy should be distinguished from reduced affect display, which refers to reduced emotional expression but not necessarily reduced emotion. (wikipedia.org)
Although the word apathy was first used in 1594 and is derived from the Greek ἀπάθεια (apatheia), from ἀπάθης (apathēs, "without feeling" from a- ("without, not") and pathos ("emotion")), it is important not to confuse the two terms. (wikipedia.org)

People with severe apathy tend to have a lower quality of life and are at a higher risk for mortality and early institutionalization. (wikipedia.org)
Here, we designed two paradigms to assess individual differences in physical effort production and effort-based decision-making and their relation to apathy in healthy people. (nih.gov)
Maybe so, but apathy is still a message, and not a message that these fanatically political people like to be told. (samizdata.net)
The researchers concluded that apathy may be a manifestation of mild inflammation in elderly people. (bipolarnews.org)
He noted that the increased push by Calgary universities and their student unions to get younger people involved in the election have been great steps towards eliminating apathy. (calgaryjournal.ca)
5) I've heard many people blame our country's lack of preparedness on apathy. (cdc.gov)

Also meaning "absence of passion," "apathy" or "insensibility" in Greek, the term apatheia was used by the Stoics to signify a (desirable) state of indifference toward events and things that lie outside one's control (that is, according to their philosophy, all things exterior, one being only responsible for one's own representations and judgments). (wikipedia.org)
The degree to which one feels the feelings of another determines whether one's dot is plotted closer to the empathy or apathy extreme. (whitneyhess.com)

Pathological apathy, characterized by extreme forms of apathy, is now known to occur in many different brain disorders, including neurodegenerative conditions often associated with dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. (wikipedia.org)
Apathy can be a symptom of mental health problems, Parkinson's disease, or Alzheimer's disease. (webmd.com)

Apathy is usually felt only in the short term, but sometimes it becomes a long-term or even lifelong state, often leading to deeper social and psychological issues. (wikipedia.org)

It is proposed that, in cases of psychic emptiness, boredom and apathy, the analyst should engage in a constructive work to revitalize the analytic scene, providing a route of symbolization of the analysand's split material and contributing to the analysis functioning as a potential space for that purpose. (bvsalud.org)

The processes by which individuals decide to attribute physical effort to obtain rewards might be particularly relevant to relate to apathy traits. (nih.gov)
Individuals with relatively high apathy traits showed an increased modulation of effort while more motivated individuals generally exerted greater force across different levels of stake. (nih.gov)

Author Leo Buscaglia is quoted as saying "I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate-it's apathy. (wikipedia.org)
By definition, empathy is the opposite of apathy . (whitneyhess.com)

I believe empathy and apathy exist on a spectrum. (whitneyhess.com)
I believe it is the empathy-apathy disposition spectrum that is, at the very core, responsible for creating organizational and communal culture. (whitneyhess.com)

Apathy can also be defined as a person's lack of goal orientation. (wikipedia.org)
Apathy is a lack of those feelings. (webmd.com)
Lack of trust in big parties and the dominance in everyone's lives of the pandemic have led to a previously unseen apathy in the lead-up. (cyprus-mail.com)
Apathy denotes a lack of feeling of personal responsibility, a passivity and indifference for political affairs. (kubatana.net)

To have the most possible empathy (and therefore the least possible apathy) can then be described as feeling the feelings of another with the greatest accuracy and effort. (whitneyhess.com)
On the other hand, to have the most possible apathy (and the least possible empathy) is to have no accuracy in feeling the feelings of another - to simply not try at all. (whitneyhess.com)

Apathy is a common but poorly understood condition with a wide societal impact observed in several brain disorders as well as, to some extent, in the normal population. (nih.gov)

In 1950, US novelist John Dos Passos wrote: "Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. (wikipedia.org)

French social commentator and political thinker Charles de Montesquieu stated that "the tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in the democracy. (wikipedia.org)

In the first study, apathy scores were correlated with the degree to which stake (reward on offer) and difficulty level impacts on physical effort production. (nih.gov)

They may be competing for the same council seat, but when candidates running in Ward 11 met on Wednesday night to debate the issues, they seemed to agree more than disagree about two key topics: the need for less secrecy and apathy in city politics. (calgaryjournal.ca)

Apathy has been socially viewed as worse than things such as hate or anger. (wikipedia.org)
Apathy (also called impassivity ) is a state of indifference or suppression of concern, not being excited or having no passion to perform things. (wikipedia.org)

Moderator Greg Hart also posed a question from the audience about political apathy and how the candidates would deal with the problem. (calgaryjournal.ca)

I don't know if I've ever read a book about apathy, especially/I mean, your subtitle is perfect. (familylife.com)

Apathy in students, especially those in high school, is a growing problem. (wikipedia.org)

A problem with areas in the front of your brain that control your emotions, goals, and behavior can cause apathy. (webmd.com)

This interpretation of apathy is also referred to as Sloth and is listed among the Seven Deadly Sins. (wikipedia.org)

At this point, the state health officer, Dr Thomas Dobbs, also blamed apathy. (sciencealert.com)

This kind of apathy is anything but straightforwardly anti-politics. (samizdata.net)

Helen Keller stated that apathy is the "worst of them all" when it comes to the various evils in the world. (wikipedia.org)

Apathy in schools is most easily recognized by students being unmotivated or, quite commonly, being motivated by outside factors. (wikipedia.org)

As can be seen by these quotes and various others, the social implications of apathy are great. (wikipedia.org)

There may be other factors contributing to a person's apathy. (wikipedia.org)

The tasks we introduce here may provide useful tools to further investigate apathy in clinical populations. (nih.gov)

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