Psychiatry and Psychology

Neurocirculatory Asthenia

A clinical syndrome characterized by palpitation, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, labored breathing, subjective complaints of effort and discomfort, all following slight PHYSICAL EXERTION. Other symptoms may be DIZZINESS, tremulousness, SWEATING, and INSOMNIA. Neurocirculatory asthenia is most typically seen as a form of anxiety disorder.

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A clinical syndrome characterized by palpitation, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, labored breathing, subjective complaints of effort and discomfort, all following slight PHYSICAL EXERTION. Other symptoms may be DIZZINESS, tremulousness, SWEATING, and INSOMNIA. Neurocirculatory asthenia is most typically seen as a form of anxiety disorder.

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  • Cardiac Neurosis
  • Effort Syndrome
  • Phobia, Cardiac
  • Asthenia, Neurocirculatory
  • Cardiac Neuroses
  • Cardiac Phobia
  • Neurocirculatory Asthenias
  • Neurosis, Cardiac
  • Syndrome, Effort
  • Hyperkinetic Heart Syndrome
  • Heart Syndrome, Hyperkinetic
  • Syndrome, Hyperkinetic Heart

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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NEURASTHENIA is also available

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Neurocirculatory Asthenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009449. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009449
  2. Neurocirculatory Asthenia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Costa%27s_syndrome
  3. Neurocirculatory Asthenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1757359