neurasthenia
Neurasthenia ( and () 'weak') is a term that was first used as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves. It became a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist George Miller Beard reintroduced the concept in 1869.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).differential
- anxiety, asthenia, chronic fatigue, fatigue, lethargy
- Medical condition (new).name
- Neurasthenia
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- fatigue, lethargy, stress-related headache, insomnia, irritability, malaise, restlessness, stress, and weariness
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Electrotherapy, rest
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Research
1,777 papers- Neurasthenia: Modern Malady or Historical Relic?The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2019
- Neurasthenia: tracing the journey of a protean malady.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2020
- 'Neurasthenia'.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2004
- Traumatic Hystero-Neurasthenia in Professor Charcot's Leçons du Mardi.
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- Modern diagnosis
- In Asia
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Neurasthenia ( and () 'weak') is a term that was first used as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves. It became a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist George Miller Beard reintroduced the concept in 1869.
As a psychopathological term, the first to publish on neurasthenia was Michigan alienist E. H. Van Deusen of the Kalamazoo asylum in 1869. Also in 1868, New York neurologist George Beard used the term in an article published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia, and depressed mood. Van Deusen associated the condition with farm wives made sick by isolation and a lack of engaging activity; Beard connected the condition to busy society women and overworked businessmen.