What's the difference between neurasthenia and neurosis?

Neurasthenia


Definition:

  • (n.) A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.
  • (2) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
  • (3) The Japanese preferred alternative was to give a vague alternative diagnosis such as neurasthenia.
  • (4) Uncertainty of diagnosis with ever expanding diagnostic criteria, therapy undertaken without an adequate physiological basis, and often adverse effects from therapy, were characteristic of the medicalization of neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome.
  • (5) This paper evaluates the claim that Vietnam veterans with psychiatric disorders are suffering from toxic neurasthenia--a neurasthenic syndrome caused by exposure to pesticides while serving in Vietnam.
  • (6) Findings from empirical research on neurasthenia in China, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, corroborate this formulation.
  • (7) Based on quotations from Freuds writings on the actual neurosis and quotations from Schultz-Henckes writings on neurasthenia and nervousness, the psychodynamics of psychovegetative disturbances are demonstrated through an examplatory case.
  • (8) Thus, in the work- and production-oriented society, chronic fatigue, which affects one's productivity and ability to work, becomes a hallmark of neurasthenia or neurasthenia-like syndrome.
  • (9) The focused ultrasound has been used for the comparative study of skin sensitivity to pain in 51 healthy men and 64 patients with neurasthenia, natural model of the chronic psycho-emotional stress.
  • (10) Depression was not a frequent diagnosis, but neurasthenia was a fairly common one.
  • (11) Despite its origin in Western psychiatry, neurasthenia has become a popular concept in Chinese folk medicine, referring to a variety of somatic and psychological symptoms.
  • (12) Thirty patients with cerebral arachnoiditis and 26 with neurasthenia were found to have differences in the content of serotonin, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic++ acid and melatonin in the cerebrospinal fluid, which depended in arachnoiditis on the degree of intracranial pressure elevation.
  • (13) Popular Chinese books on neurasthenia suggest that causes might be attributed to lifestyle, psychological factors, and health problems.
  • (14) It is further argued that neither neurasthenia nor 'ME' can be fully understood within a single medical or psychiatric model.
  • (15) helped to enhance exercise tolerance, to lower the blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, FFA, the total fraction of low- and very low-density lipoproteins, to reduce manifestations of hypochondriasis, depression, and neurasthenia .
  • (16) The history of neurasthenia is discussed in the light of current interest in chronic fatigue, and in particular the illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis ('ME').
  • (17) Both the nineteenth and twentieth century cultural views of women were important in the establishment of menstruation, neurasthenia and premenstrual syndrome as medical conditions.
  • (18) Two forms of neuroses--neurasthenia and hysteria--show statistically definitive differences in the EEG patterns.
  • (19) Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and neurasthenia were seen significantly more often among the female patients than in the normal women.
  • (20) The functional stomatological diseases in the form of stomatalgias were revealed in all the patients suffering from neurasthenia, neurotic depression, neurotic development of the personality as well as from psychopathy decompensation.

Neurosis


Definition:

  • (n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In depression neurosis, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis the scale 2 (D) increases dominantly; in hysteria, the scale 3 (HY); in hypochondria, the scale 1 (HS); in phobic and compulsion neurosis, the scale 7.
  • (2) Patients in these categories who are also in crisis or have a neurotic problem for which the development of a transference neurosis is indicated may require individual therapy instead of or in addition to group therapy.
  • (3) These findings reveal that these former microelectronics workers manifested affective and personality disturbances, consistent with organic solvent toxicity, which persisted over a two year period, indicating that they were not reactive, transient hysterical neurosis.
  • (4) Five patients (14 per cent) improved dramatically; in retrospect, four of these five patients suffered from nonremitting forms of manic-depressive illness, and the fifth patient suffered from a severe obsessive compulsive neurosis.
  • (5) Several examples of the manifest dreams reported by a patient with a compulsive neurosis are presented.
  • (6) This shift is thought to parallel the oscillation between unconscious instinctual gratification and conscious attempts at reparation which is the main dynamic feature of the compulsive neurosis in waking life.
  • (7) A similar profile was obtained for subjects admitted for a depressive neurosis, in support of the continuum hypothesis between anxiety and depression.
  • (8) As fear neuroses, they have to be separated from wishful neurosis (hysterical neurosis).
  • (9) Induction of experimental neurosis (by collision of the alimentary and avoidance reflex) gave rise to changes not only in the output of HCl and gastric proteinases, but also in the ratio of macromolecular substances.
  • (10) It screens for the DSM-III criterion-based diagnostic categories of neurosis (dysphoric, compulsive, anxious), somatization, conduct disorder (antisocial, violent), and hyperactivity.
  • (11) With the aid of a feedback towards an increase in the EEG intensity, adaptive regulation of brain biopotentials (alpha-rhythm) was conducted in 22 patients with different forms of neurosis.
  • (12) Based on quotations from Freuds writings on the actual neurosis and quotations from Schultz-Henckes writings on neurasthenia and nervousness, the psychodynamics of psychovegetative disturbances are demonstrated through an examplatory case.
  • (13) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
  • (14) However, patients within the categories of reactive psychosis and neurosis who received antidepressants also had a low coefficient of variation, although the neurotics were significantly more depressed than the manic-depressives at discharge from hospital.
  • (15) The semantic differential also shows that the various 'zones' tested by the inducive words are neither equally affected by neurosis nor equally modified by treatment.
  • (16) Prevalence of "obsessive neurosis" was higher in London as compared to Lari and Athens, while the opposite was true for "generalized anxiety".
  • (17) The disease entity which lies between neurosis and psychosis is delineated based on pathogenesis and symptome.
  • (18) The classification was made by paired comparison of the following four diagnoses: schizophrenia, paranoid form (n = 45), schizophrenia, unspecified form (n = 47), depressive psychosis (n = 44), and depressive neurosis (n = 53).
  • (19) The influence of experimental neurosis due to repeated conflict situations on blood pressure was studied in male monkeys.
  • (20) Finally the applicability of neurosis profiles from PSKB scales is delineated in the light of examples from our own investigations.

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