hyperesthesia
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Hyperesthesia is a condition that involves an abnormal increase in sensitivity to stimuli of the senses. Stimuli of the senses can include sound that one hears, foods that one tastes, textures that one feels, and so forth. Increased touch sensitivity is referred to as "tactile hyperesthesia", and increased sound sensitivity is called "auditory hyperesthesia". In the context of pain, hyperaesthesia can refer to an increase in sensitivity where there is both allodynia and hyperalgesia.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Hyperesthesia
- Medical condition (new).speciality
- Neurology, psychiatry
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Hyperaesthesia
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Research
1,858 papers- Understanding behavior: feline hyperesthesia syndrome.Compendium (Yardley, PA) · 2009
- Feline hyperesthesia syndrome.Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association · 1980
- Feline hyperesthesia syndrome.Compendium (Yardley, PA) · 2009
- NOTALGIA PARESTHETICA.Acta clinica Croatica · 2018
- [Home treatment of dental hyperesthesia symptoms].Stomatologiia · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
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- different from
- highly sensitive person
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000300
- health specialty
- neurology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C116376
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hyperesthesia is a condition that involves an abnormal increase in sensitivity to stimuli of the senses. Stimuli of the senses can include sound that one hears, foods that one tastes, textures that one feels, and so forth. Increased touch sensitivity is referred to as "tactile hyperesthesia", and increased sound sensitivity is called "auditory hyperesthesia". In the context of pain, hyperaesthesia can refer to an increase in sensitivity where there is both allodynia and hyperalgesia.
In psychology, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin uses the term by defining it as an "exacerbation des sens" that characterizes gifted individuals: for them, the sensory information reaches the brain much faster than the average, and the information is processed in a significantly shorter time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hyperesthesia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.