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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.
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.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, cPTSD, or hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental and behavioral disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas [1] (i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, from which one sees little or no chance to escape).
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 .
Unconsciousness may occur as the result of traumatic brain injury, brain hypoxia (inadequate oxygen, possibly due to a brain infarction or cardiac arrest), severe intoxication with drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system (e.g., alcohol and other hypnotic or sedative drugs), severe fatigue, pain, anaesthesia, and other ...
Bradyphrenia is the slowness of thought common to many disorders of the brain. [1] Disorders characterized by bradyphrenia include Parkinson's disease and forms of schizophrenia consequently causing a delayed response and fatigue. [2]
Numbness usually occurs after the tingling has passed with a loss of position sense. [41] Other symptoms of the aura phase can include speech or language disturbances, world spinning, and less commonly motor problems. [41] Motor symptoms indicate that this is a hemiplegic migraine, and weakness often lasts longer than one hour unlike other ...