(n.) A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.
Example Sentences:
(1) Citicolin, a psychodrug, is usually used for the treatment of ischemic cerebropathies.
(2) In a controlled clinical trial, amantadine 400 mg daily, 200 mg daily and 200 mg daily given with 20 mg of pemoline daily were compared with placebo in the treatment of elderly patients suffering from involutional cerebropathy characterized by psychomotor slowing down.
(3) It is suggested that hemorheological alterations might contribute to the pathogenesis of certain clinical forms of chronic cerebropathy.
(4) Serial angioscintigraphy with 99mTc-pertecnetate and gamma camera was carried out in more than 500 cases of cerebropathies with various but prevalently vascular pathogenesis.
(5) The blood levels of CPK and CPK MB enzymes were measured in 3 groups of patients: group A consists of 13 patients affected by acute vascular cerebropathy (A.V.C.)
Hypochondriac
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
(a.) Affected, characterized, or produced, by hypochondriasis.
(n.) A person affected with hypochondriasis.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(2) In women, poor outcome was associated with multiple depressive symptoms, depression diagnosed previous to this study, not living alone, low social participation, low self-perceived health, diurnal variation of symptoms, and the occurrence of initial insomnia, loss of libido, and hypochondriacal and compulsive symptoms.
(3) A total of 101 patients suffering from slowly progressive schizophrenia with hypochondriac symptomatology and a manifestation or a relapse of the disease in the involutional age have been studied.
(4) Within the hypochondriacal sample, no correlation was found between the degree of hypochondriasis and the extent of medical morbidity.
(5) These patients become quite anxious and hypochondriacal and begin to avoid certain situations in which they feel a recurrence of a panic attack would be dangerous or embarrassing.
(6) The author analyzes the results of an experimental study into sense regulation of the activity of patients with the hypochondriac syndrome.
(7) We administered two validated scales of hypochondriacal concerns (the Illness Behavior Questionnaire and the Illness Attitude Scales) to 60 medical students and matched law students.
(8) I will discuss the treatment of patients with hypochondriacal depressions.
(9) They were manifested by a number of symptom complexes: hypochondriac (13.6%), anxiety-depressive (18.4%) and paranoid (9.1%).
(10) Non-articulation of conceptual structure was not specific to patients with hypochondriacal symptoms, physical illness or chronic neuroses.
(11) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
(12) Patients with fatigue lasting six months or longer compared with patients with more recent fatigue had lower family incomes and greater hypochondriacal worry.
(13) Are patients who complain of functional digestive tract disorders, constantly seeking medical advice and heavy medication consumers, mentally ill (emotional patients, hypochondriacs, depressive, hysterics), are they just under great stress, or do they indeed have chronic pain pathology?
(14) They were most similar to the latter in their hypochondriacal attitude, and least similar in their psychological perception of illness.
(15) The present article describes four such cases, which fall into the larger category of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychoses, conditions that appear to be related to the paranoid disorders.
(16) Of 100 inpatients with depressive illness, fifty-three had evidence of depressed mood prior to their hypochondriacal symptoms, sixteen had the opposite sequence of development and thirty-one had no hypochondriacal symptoms.
(17) Early neurosyphilis was characterized by affective volitional, asthenic, and hypochondriac disorders, whereas late neurosyphilis was manifested in neurosis-like disturbances, partial and total dementia and hallucinational paranoid syndrome.
(18) Examples are given for various levels of personality organizations and pathology, including neurotic, borderline, psychotic, psychosomatic and hypochondriacal patients.
(19) It was also found that only very few of the children in the study had previous hypochondriacal traits, a fact which contrasted sharply to those of their parents in whom hypochondriacal traits predominate.
(20) Finally, the SDIH appeared to have discriminant validity in that patients diagnosed as hypochondriacal had several other clinical features that distinguished them from the patients who scored above the cutoff on hypochondriacal symptomatology, but failed to be diagnosed as hypochondriacal with the SDIH.