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Reported symptoms also include insomnia, a sense of discomfort, motor restlessness, marked anxiety, and panic. [13] Symptoms have also been said to resemble symptoms of neuropathic pain similar to fibromyalgia and restless legs syndrome. [14] When caused by psychiatric drugs, akathisia usually disappears quickly once the medication is reduced ...
The medical term neurasthenia is translated as Chinese shenjing shuairuo (simplified Chinese: 神经衰弱; traditional Chinese: 神經衰弱; pinyin: shénjīng shuāiruò; Cantonese Yale: sàhngīng sēuiyeuhk) or Japanese shinkei-suijaku (神経衰弱), both of which also translate the common term nervous breakdown.
Delirium (formerly acute confusional state, an ambiguous term that is now discouraged) [1] is a specific state of acute confusion attributable to the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, effects of a psychoactive substance, or multiple causes, which usually develops over the course of hours to days.
Some known causes that increase the risk of having a panic attack include medical and psychiatric conditions (e.g., panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, depression), substances (e.g., nicotine, caffeine), and psychological stress.
The word apoplexy was sometimes used to refer to the symptom of sudden loss of consciousness immediately preceding death. Strokes , ruptured aortic aneurysms , and even heart attacks were referred to as apoplexy in the past, because before the advent of biomedical science , the ability to differentiate abnormal conditions and diseased states ...
The National Association of Medical Examiners does not endorse or recognize the term, though it acknowledges forensic pathologists have used it as a cause of death, its president Dr. J. Keith ...
Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. [1]
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.