(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.
Neurotic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.
(a.) Uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
(n.) A disease seated in the nerves.
(n.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data are compared with the results from 79 patients with a bipolar depression, 192 with a neurotic depression and 89 with a depressive reaction.
(2) Some factors of resistance (such as side benefits) happen in reactive and neurotic depressions and are independent of the pharmacological action.
(3) The first axis embraoes the genotypic period, the second the effects of etioepigenetic factors, and the third the formation of psychopathologic (neurotic or psychiatric) syndromes.
(4) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(5) The clinical groups represented schizophrenic, neurotic, sex disturbance, and behavior disorder categories.
(6) Schizoid men differ from neurotic men both in terms of a distinctive mother experience and a distinctive father experience.
(7) Two groups of patients treated in the Department of Neurotic Disorders of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (Warsaw) were investigated 2 times during their course of psychotherapies (individual, group).
(8) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
(9) This report concerns a community sample of people with neurotic disorders.
(10) At the 2nd stage, as the self-esteem lowered and negative attitude of other schoolchildren arose, the neurotic disorders emerged alongside with prevalent depressive reactions and fear of getting bad marks and being an object of ridicule at school.
(11) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
(12) 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.
(13) It is concluded that this computerized assessment of neurotic symptoms is valid and reliable.
(14) severe psychological distress ('disassuagement') when support-givers cannot be induced to act effectively, with a propensity to devise defensive strategies, supplemented by psychological defence mechanisms; when maladaptive, these strategies are the source of neurotic symptoms and antisocial traits.
(15) There were two areas of concern that may need attention: that insight and group psychotherapy require substantial numbers of treatment hours, and that behavioural psychotherapy is rarely used for patients with neurotic conditions.
(16) The response type cases corresponded to psychosocial stress by neurotic and maladaptive behavior.
(17) The neurotic patients were generally older than the psychotic patients at the time of admission (p less than 0.02).
(18) The operation should be considered in such neurotic, personality and psychotic illnesses when medical treatment has failed.
(19) The skin conductance responses of schizophrenics, neurotics and normals to orienting stimuli were examined.
(20) They made the hypothesis that if a tranquillizing drug were administered the operative level of neuroticism would be decreased, and as a consequence the level of susceptibility of neurotic extraverts would be raised, and that of neurotic introverts lowered.