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Cotard's syndrome withdraws the person with the condition from other people due to neglect of their personal hygiene and physical health. Delusions of negation of self prevent the patient from making sense of external reality, which then produces a distorted view of the external world. Such delusions of negation are usually found in ...
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead. [4] Women and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children.
Ghost sickness is a culture-bound syndrome among some indigenous peoples in North America and Polynesian peoples in which people are preoccupied with the deceased or consumed by pathological grief. Reported symptoms can include general weakness, loss of appetite, suffocation feelings, recurring nightmares, and a
Factitious disorder is distinct from malingering in that people with factitious disorder do not fabricate symptoms for material gain such as financial compensation, absence from work, or access to drugs. [47] Somatiform disorders include a range of illnesses where physical symptoms result from psychological stressors. [48]
The respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be very contagious and spread quickly, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Nearly 1.2 million people have died from COVID ...
“The event or death may have been related to the underlying disease being treated, may have been caused by some other product being used at the same time, or may have occurred for other reasons.” The Times story also cited a buprenorphine study by researchers in Sweden that looked at “100 autopsies where buprenorphine had been detected.”
For establishing that a person has frailty multiple factors or signs need to be present at the same time. [ 3 ] Most often frailty is identified by having three out of five of the following symptoms: unintentional weight loss, muscle weakness, self-reported exhaustion, slowness and low physical activity.