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Cachexia (/ k ə ˈ k ɛ k s i ə / [1]) is a syndrome that happens when people have certain illnesses, causing muscle loss that cannot be fully reversed with improved nutrition. [2] It is most common in diseases like cancer, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, and AIDS.
Sarcopenia may also have no symptoms until it is severe and is often unrecognized. [2] Research has shown, however, that hypertrophy may occur in the upper parts of the body to compensate for this loss of lean muscle mass [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Therefore, one early indicator of the onset of sarcopenia can be significant loss of muscle mass in the anterior ...
Ambiguous loss is a loss that occurs without a significant likelihood of reaching emotional closure or a clear understanding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This kind of loss leaves a person searching for answers, and thus complicates and delays the process of grieving , and often results in unresolved grief.
Late-life depression is often underdiagnosed, which is due to numerous reasons, including that depressed mood is commonly not as prominent as other somatic and psychotic symptoms such as loss of appetite, disruptions in sleep, lack of energy or anergia, fatigue, and loss of interest and enjoyment in normal life activities.
Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS or MUS) are symptoms for which a treating physician or other healthcare providers have found no medical cause, or whose cause remains contested. [1] In its strictest sense, the term simply means that the cause for the symptoms is unknown or disputed—there is no scientific consensus .
These include major depressive disorder (commonly called major depression or clinical depression) where a person has at least two weeks of depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities; and dysthymia, a state of chronic depressed mood, the symptoms of which do not meet the severity of a major depressive episode.
Grief is the response to the loss of something deemed important, particularly to the death of a person or other living thing to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical dimensions.
Abulia has been described as a loss of drive, expression, behavior and speech output, with slowing and prolonged speech latency, and reduction of spontaneous thought content and initiative, [7] being considered more recently as 'a reduction in action emotion and cognition'. [6] The clinical features most commonly associated with abulia are: [6]