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Adynamy

Adynamy (asthenia; Greek astheneia – weakness, powerlessness; synonym: a syndrome asthenic) – a state which is characterized by tearfulness, increased fatigue, irritable weakness, frequent change of mood, a hyperesthesia, frustration of a dream and vegetative disturbances.

Allocate the following types of an adynamy:

  • Hypersthenic (hypersthenica; Greek hyper-– over, over, excessive increase in something + Greek sthenos – force) – arises because of weakening of function of active braking; proceeds with the phenomena of irritability, fieriness, loss of self-control; the term is offered by A. G. Ivanov-Smolensk;
  • Hyposthenic (hyposthenica; Greek hypo-– from below, under, insufficiency, reduction + Greek sthenos – force) – arises because of weakening of processes of excitement; proceeds with the phenomena of irritable weakness, an exhaustion; the term is offered by A. G. Ivanov-Smolensk;
  • Intoksikatsionny (synonym: the neurasthenia intoksikatsionny) – arises against the background of toxicomania and intoxications; it is characterized by development of preferential vegetative disturbances;
  • Infectious (infectiosa; synonym: Bongeffera an adynamy) – arises during an infectious disease, or after it;
  • Organic (organica; synonyms: the neurasthenia is organic, the pseudo-neurasthenia) – is observed along with initial signs of organic lesions of a brain (weakness of judgments, dysmnesias, etc.);
  • Periodic (periodica) – comes pristupoobrazno; it is characterized by frustration of mood with clear depressive components;
  • Mental (psychica) – is expressed by the raised exhaustion of mental processes and delay of their recovery; it is combined with emotional lability and a mental hyperesthesia;
  • Physical (physicalis) – an adynamy with dominance of a bystry physical exhaustion.
 
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