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Neurasthenia

Known as: Fatigue neurosis, Neurasthenia [Disease/Finding], Nervous debility 
An episode of acute, severe anxiety or depression associated with an inability to function as normal.
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

Related topics

21 relations
AstheniaAsthenic personalityChronic Fatigue SyndromeCyclothymic Disorder

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Mental disorders

Papers overview

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Review
2010
Review
2010
Directed Attention as a Common Resource for Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation
  • S. Kaplan, M. Berman
  • Perspectives on psychological science : a journal…
  • 2010
  • Corpus ID: 4992335
Research on executive functioning and on self-regulation have each identified a critical resource that is central to that domain… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Immunological aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know?
Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a foundational postulate of psychology, yet… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Toward validation of atypical depression in the community: results of the Zurich cohort study.
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
on the clinical validity of the maslach burnout inventory and the burnout measure
Abstract Current knowledge about burnout suffers from a healthy worker bias since only working - and thus relatively healthy… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Depression Comorbid with Anxiety: Results from the WHO Study on Psychological Disorders in Primary Health Care
The World Health Organization collaborative study on “Psychological Problems in General Health Care” investigated the form… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Common mental disorders and disability across cultures. Results from the WHO Collaborative Study on Psychological Problems in General Health Care.
OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of common mental illness on functional disability and the cross-cultural consistency of this… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Old wine in new bottles: neurasthenia and ‘ME’
  • S. Wessely
  • Psychological Medicine
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 45832133
SYNOPSIS The history of neurasthenia is discussed in the light of current interest in chronic fatigue, and in particular the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China
Neurasthenia (ironically, a Western import) is a common diagnosis in the Peoples' Republic of China, but in the United States it… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China
  • A. Kleinman
  • Culture, medicine and psychiatry
  • 1982
  • Corpus ID: 23591895
The author reviews conceptual and empirical issues regarding the interaction of neurasthenia, somatization and depression in… 
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