• Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον neuron "nerve" and ἀσθενής asthenés "weak") is a term that was first used as early as 1829 for a mechanical...
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  • functional cardiovascular disease, neurocirculatory asthenia, primary neurasthenia, and subacute asthenia. Da Costa himself called it irritable heart  and...
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    physical. In 1869, New York neurologist George Beard used the term "neurasthenia" to describe a very broad condition caused by the exhaustion of the nervous...
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  • same studies found fibromyalgia was significantly less common in ICF. Neurasthenia was a diagnosis in the World Health Organization's ICD-10, but deprecated...
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    dementia Woman suffering from general paralysis; c. 1869. Symptoms Early: Neurasthenia, personality changes, mood swings, problems with memory, judgment and...
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    pioneered the rest cure for diseases now termed "psychiatric", particularly neurasthenia and hysteria, subsequently taken up by the medical world. The treatment...
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    with Lenin's doctors unsure of the cause; some suggested that he had neurasthenia or cerebral arteriosclerosis. In May 1922, he had his first stroke, temporarily...
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    amantadine and memantine which is used in Russia in the treatment of neurasthenia. Although the effects of the bromantane have been determined to be dependent...
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  • of prostate, antidepressants, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual neurasthenia, and calculi in the seminal vesicles. Somehow in simple terms painful...
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  • psychasthenias and the hysterias. (He discarded the then common term "neurasthenia" (weak nerves) since it implied a neurological theory where none existed...
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