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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"psychogenic"”.
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Menopausal Transition: Psychosocial Aspects and the Role of Melatonin in Psychogenic Symptoms
Psychogenic symptoms (trouble sleeping, lack of energy, difficulty in concentration, nervous tension, feelings of sadness/ downheartedness) are among the most frequently reported symptoms of menopausal transition, as are nocturnal hot flushes/sweats. Few studies have combined psychosocial and …
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Latent classes of comorbid clinical presentations for patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
<p>Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are episodes of motor, sensory, and/or cognitive seizures without detectable epileptic activity. The integrative cognitive model conceptualizes PNES as an activation of learned mental representations of a seizure often combined with concurrent …
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An examination of social desirability confounds in a new ipsative measure of Murray's Psychogenic Needs
… this shortcoming, a new ipsative instrument, the Psychogenic Need Scale (PNS), is currently being developed; this is a 190-item forced-choice self-report measure that is based upon Murray’s psychogenic needs. For the development of a valid forced-choice instrument, it is critical to minimise the …
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Altered Brain Networks In Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) Using Ultra High Field MRI
Background: Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures (PNES) are attacks that appear similar to epileptic attacks. However, they lack abnormal electrical discharges in the brain and have psychological underpinnings and causes. The gold standard of diagnosis is video-EEG which is not widely accessible, …
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Identifying Speech-Language Pathologists' Current Perceptions and Practice Patterns
… patterns with individuals with neurogenic and psychogenic stuttering. Participants reported using a battery of assessments and a variety of treatment approaches to diagnose neurogenic and psychogenic stuttering in addition to traditional fluency assessments and fluency enhancing techniques. …
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Exploring infertility through art
… on researching the use of art to explore the psychogenic, psychological and physiological aspects of infertility and the psychosomatic avenues of expression possibly resulting in, or contributing to, infertility. The term psychogenic means "pertaining to disorders which are functional in …
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Survey of the war neuroses
… others look upon them as primarily functional or psychogenic : others again endeavour to combine those differing views in the conception of a "functional" derangement of the cortical cells subserving the disordered organ.
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Hysteria, Greed, and the Public Purse: The Litigation Impacting a Local Governmental Agency
… the neighborhood and plant the seeds for mass psychogenic illness and neighborhood hysteria. The resulting litigation illustrates the vulnerability of the public sector to contrived litigation and the concomitant consequences to John Q. Citizen and the public purse. This research will …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… to acute) and physiological (as opposed to psychogenic) in nature, with pathology primarily originating in the nervous system. Furthermore, whereas with trauma, emphasis is placed on the role of the brain and ultimately on narrativization for potential healing, with shock, intervention is …
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A Multigroup Analysis of the Psychological Factors that Contribute to Persisting Working Attention Problems in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Chronic Pain
… that are reported by the two populations. Psychogenic, rather than physiogenic, factors are thought to play an important role in the maintenance of these persisting symptoms. The current investigation examined the contributions somatization, depression, and anxiety had on an objective …
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(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural
… case of “conversion disorder” or “mass psychogenic illness” experienced by a group of teenage girls in Le Roy, New York. I argue we can see this contemporary embodiment of hysteria as a form of queer communicative resistance, existing in a discursive space called the hysterical …
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Stress response and habituation as influenced by nutritional and thermal factors in dwarf and normal chickens
… responses, possibly via alteration of psychogenic components. An experiment was designed to evaluate the impact of mild feed restriction at several ages on heat tolerance. Normal chicks feed-deprived during the neonatal stage had lower H/L ratios, improved resistance to marble spleen …
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Understanding the Experience of Non-Epileptic Seizures in Young People: A Multi-Perspectival Qualitative Analysis
… Summary: Non-epileptic seizures, also known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) or functional seizures, can look like epilepsy or affect changes in behaviour, although there is no change in brainwave activity when a video-electroencephalogram (V-EEG) is carried out (Myers et al., …
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The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying dissociative amnesia
Dissociative amnesia refers to the loss of autobiographical memory with a presumed psychological cause. This can involve memory loss for traumatic experiences, such as in PTSD. It can also involve more extensive amnesia for several years, or, in its most extreme form, a fugue state involving total …
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Influence of the Autonomic Nervous System, Skin Barrier Indicators and Psycho-Emotional Aspects in Patients with Lichen Simplex Chronikus /// Влияние на вегетативната нервна система, показатели на кожната бариера и психо-емоционални аспекти при пациенти с лихен симплекс хроникус
Лихен симплекс хроникус (ЛСХ) е хронична дерматоза с ограничени, силно сърбящи лихенифицирани и инфилтрирани плаки. Предилекционно те се разполагат по задната и странични участъци на тила, по екстензорните повърхности на тялото и в ано-гениталната област. Заболяването ангажира и двата пола, като …
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Komorbidní výskyt poruchy příjmu potravy se závislostí na návykových látkách v různých léčebných zařízeních a možnost jejího psychoterapeutického ovlivnění
Tato rigorózní práce je zaměřená na výzkum komorbidity poruch příjmu potravy s užíváním návykových látek. V teoretické části stručně definuje jednotlivé návykové látky a popisuje jejich škodlivé užívání, závislost a bio-psycho-socio-spirituální model závislosti. Z poruch příjmu potravy se práce …