Sentences with phrase «psychogenic nonepileptic»

The trial court intended to take judicial notice of the meaning of the term «psychogenic,» and found a medical dictionary to be an indisputable source of the definition.

KRE 201 (g)» ****** «During rebuttal, the Commonwealth asked to be allowed to read the definition of «psychogenic» from an unnamed medical dictionary as a learned treatise pursuant to KRE 803 (18).

While there is much confusion of terms here, the trial court committed no error when it allowed the Commonwealth to read a definition of «psychogenic» into the record.

E.F. is a 58 year old woman enduring chronic and intolerable suffering as a result of «severe conversion disorder» (classified as a psychogenic movement disorder).

The study found that patients who suffer from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) after a traumatic brain injury may be more likely to suffer from:

Though if we're speculating on such things as Bob Tisdale's personal integrity and honesty, I believe psychogenic confirmation bias, rather than conscious decision to deceive, is an adequate explanation of the bad math.

They concluded that «complaints are consistent with psychogenic hypotheses that health problems arising are «communicated diseases» with nocebo effects likely to play an important role in the aetiology of complaints.»

Professor Simon Chapman and a team of researchers at the Public Health Faculty of the University of Sydney of Australia found strong supporting evidence that the psychogenic hypothesis was the dominant factor in wind farm health complaints in a recently published study undergoing formal peer review and publication.

Researchers are now assessing the nocebo and psychogenic hypotheses, finding strong evidence that they are the cause of the majority of complaints and are responsible for significant increases in numbers and severity of complaints.

In both cases, I works the same way, so I guess the whole issue relates probably to some psychogenic dysfunction.

The absence of abnormalities in the tissue virtually confirms a psychological (the more correct term is «psychogenic») cause of the mowing.

This is generally called «psychogenic» mowing.

Cats get a problem called psychogenic alopecia that can be similar in appearance to atopy.

(In the Guelph study mentioned above, three cats had both psychogenic mowing AND medical disease.)

Those cases need to be differentiated from stress induced over grooming (psychogenic alopecia although wikipedia is confusing the two issues).

But one needs to be sure that the hair loss and licking is not a simple reaction to stress occurring in the cat's life (psychogenic alopecia or hair loss).

When amytriptiline is helpful, I am always suspicious that psychogenic alopecia, rather than EGC is the underlying problem.

Since the cause is very commonly psychogenic, aggressive regimes of exercise, play, human contact, and enrichment can help achieve better resolution of this stubborn problem.

Dogs without any underlying physical condition who exhibit polydipsia or pollakiuria may be suffering from a condition known as psychogenic polydipsia, a behavioral disorder in which the dog feels compelled to continue drinking water long after its thirst is quenched.

An uncommon cause of dogs drinking more is called psychogenic polydipsia.

Some cats affected with idiopathic cystitis respond to treatment with the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline, indicating that there is a psychogenic component, but results are not consistent.

A 2006 study revealed that up to 30 percent of patients who actually suffer from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are misdiagnosed with epilepsy [source: ScienceDaily].

Feline Psychogenic Alopecia: or Psychogenic dermatitis: Feline psychogenic alopecia occurs if your cat licks herself, due to anxiety, stress, or boredom, until there is cat hair loss and skin irritation.

If there is no evidence of a medical issue, excessive grooming may be psychogenic in nature.

It can be caused by a medical problem or may be a compulsive disorder known as psychogenic alopecia.

It is also called psychogenic grooming.

Signs can be similar to allergies or psychogenic alopecia.

If you and your veterinarian believe that this is the cause of the hair loss then the next step is to determine if your cat is suffering from a skin condition such as itch (pruritic) or some mental condition that is causing the physical problem (psychogenic).

Also, you should be aware that there is a psychogenic polydipsia in which your dog could be a compulsive water drinker.

• Protein hydrolysates have been used successfully to treat cats with psychogenic alopecia and chronic gastrointestinal disorders.

These behavioral problems can be as simple as pacing in a cage (also known as «fence walking syndrome») or as complicated and serious as psychogenic feather picking.

However, an exclusively indoor life may be restrictive and is possibly a factor leading to compulsive behaviors such as wool sucking (when the cat sucks, chews or ingests fabric) or psychogenic alopecia (when the cat pulls his own hair out).

The Dermatology department provides diagnosis and treatment of skin and ear related disorders of companion animals, including allergic, autoimmune, endocrine, infectious and psychogenic conditions.

Finally, there is psychogenic dermatitis.

For instance, psychogenic alopecia, or fur plucking, is a common condition that includes hair thinning, balding, and skin infections.

If we suspect stress or psychogenic alopecia, we may try anti-anxiety medications or tranquilizers for your cat.

If your veterinarian rules out any possible medical causes for your cat's hair loss, he or she may determine that the problem is caused by Psychogenic Alopecia.

They may even develop psychogenic alopecia (where obsessive licking causes bald spots).

Cats love to groom themselves but when that grooming includes clumps of fur coming off your cat could be suffering from either one of the following ailments, allergies, mites, ringworm, a low fat diet or psychogenic disorders.

Female cats are more commonly affected with psychogenic alopecia.

This condition is called psychogenic alopecia, and Siamese, Abyssinian, Burmese, and Himalayan cats seem to be the most susceptible to it, due to their already high strung natures.

The most common compulsive behaviors in cats are wool sucking or fabric eating (a form of pica) and excessive licking, hair chewing or hair pulling (called psychogenic alopecia).

Clinical signs of D. gatoi infection are indistinguishable from those of cats with allergic or psychogenic dermatologic conditions.

This condition is referred to as psychogenic alopecia.

With Darling (not to be confused with the John Schlesinger film from 1965, and hardly likely to be), the writer - director behind Ritual and Pod (not to mention the upcoming Carnage Park, something of a sensation at Sundance this year) has constructed a disturbing psychogenic fever dream fit to give Lynch and Polanski nightmares.

As the misogyny onscreen bleeds into the workspace, Gilderoy's own complicit part in the film comes into sharp focus, and his English reserve and linguistic isolation are revealed to be mere psychogenic fugue from a crueller, harsher reality.

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When extensive medical workups fail to detect the cause of fatigue and lethargy, these symptoms are often dismissed as psychogenic in origin.

Further support for the «hypothalamus hypothesis» can be extrapolated from a 2012 fMRI study on men «psychogenic ED».

Those with psychogenic had atrophy of the reward center (nucleus accumbens) and the male sexual centers within the hypothalamus.