neurasthenia

No Abstract Provided My phone isn’t letting me copy exerpts from pdf. But the reason I’m sharing this is it’s a rather interesting peak into how pwME might be treated in China (it seems a diagnosis of “somatic depression” is likely). LINK (PDF)

Link (Paywall): https://doi.org/10.1177/10398562231222809 Abstract Objective The aim is to consider Long COVID not as a new clinical entity but as another example of a disabling, historical phenomenon. Conclusions A triad of polymorphic symptomatology, an elusive pathophysiological explanation...

Horrendous site; Exploring your mind blog: Spain based. https://exploringyourmind.com/who-we-are/ https://exploringyourmind.com/neurasthenia-unexplained-tiredness/ there is also a section on chronic fatigue syndrome...

I found what is said to be the first description of neurasthenia in the medical literature. This might be of interest to some here.

February 2021 In book: Handbook of Research Methods in Health Psychology (pp.228 - 241) Publisher: Routledge https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349319708_Chronic_Illness_The_Case_of_Chronic_Fatigue_Syndrome-Myalgic_Encephalomyelitis

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2020.1757925?journalCode=iirp20 not on scihub yet

Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2020.1758638 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2020.1758638

Free full text: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8aef/a8712855903a234f7e0300555ce3feedad2f.pdf

Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2019/09000/Neurasthenia__Modern_Malady_or_Historical_Relic_.7.aspx Sci hub, not available

Abstract available in Spanish and English, rest of paper in Spanish. Open access at www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S021265671930191X

Oxford Textbook of medicine (published 2010 but updated 2018): Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Chapter: Chronic fatigue syndrome (postviral fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and myalgic encephalomyelitis) Author(s): Michael...

I haven't looked at this yet. @Tom Kindlon posted it on twitter with the observation that it looks annoying... http://jah.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/jah/index.php/jah/article/view/174 Link to pdf of full text, http://jah.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/jah/index.php/jah/article/view/174/pdf

"It is a sad irony that Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing, who made such important contributions to public health through her advocacy of sanitation, statistics, and common sense, should also be remembered as history's most famous invalid and possibly as its most...