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Da Costa's syndrome is named for the surgeon Jacob Mendes Da Costa, [16] who first observed it in soldiers during the American Civil War. At the time it was proposed, Da Costa's syndrome was seen as a very desirable [17] physiological explanation for "soldier's heart". Use of the term "Da Costa's syndrome" peaked in the early 20th century.
Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.. He is particularly known for discovering Da Costa's syndrome (also known as soldier's heart), an anxiety disorder combining effort fatigue, dyspnea, a sighing respiration, palpitation and sweating that he first observed in ...
A visit to a crisis unit by a patient with a chronic mental disorder may also indicate the existence of an undiscovered precipitant, such as change in the lifestyle of the individual, or a shifting medical condition. These considerations can play a part in an improvement to an existing treatment plan. [2]
Here’s how it happens: A well-regulated nervous system is adaptable, says Nicole Cain, a psychologist and author of Panic Proof. She likens it to wearing a heavy coat to survive the cold winter ...
[2] [3] With the advent of expanded newborn screening, some mothers have been identified with MCADD after their infants had positive newborn screens for low carnitine levels. [ 4 ] The enzyme medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase ( MCAD ) is responsible for the dehydrogenation step of fatty acids with chain lengths between 6 and 12 carbons as ...
Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid significantly reversed anxiety-like behaviors and stress-induced gastrointestinal hypersensitivity and fecal pellet output. [93] Anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors caused by immobilization stress or nicotine addiction were also reduced in mice treated with the HDACi sodium butyrate and valproic acid. [94]
But a reforming justice system is feeding addicts into an unreformed treatment system, one that still carries vestiges of inhumane practices — and prejudices — from more than half a century ago. John Peterson got hooked on heroin in the mid-1950s, soon after returning home to Los Angeles from a stint in the Army.
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2; Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 3; Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome; Autoinflammatory syndromes; Avellis syndrome; Axenfeld syndrome; Axial spondyloarthritis; Ayazi syndrome