Emotional aspects of asthma.

Emotional aspects in the etiology of bronchial asthma

Immunological aspects of asthma.

PROFESSOR SCADDING's definition of asthma (Scad-ding, 1969) i.e. 'a condition characterized by variable dyspnoea with wheezing and prolonged expiration wholly or partially reversed by bronchodilators', is a clinical definition. It would be premature at this stage to attempt to define asthma in relation to its pathogenesis as this is still not understood. For the purpose of this symposium, howev...

Psychological aspects of asthma.

Asthma can be affected by stress, anxiety, sadness, and suggestion, as well as by environmental irritants or allergens, exercise, and infection. It also is associated with an elevated prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders. Asthma and these psychological states and traits may mutually potentiate each other through direct psychophysiological mediation, nonadherence to medical regimen, ex...

Psychiatric Aspects of Bronchial Asthma

SOMATIC illnesses are accompanied by psychological reactions in major or minor form, varying accordiing to the nature and severity of the disorder, the age, sex, personalitv structure and intelligence of the patient. Moreover, emotional experiences are known to have somatic concomitants and consequently a psychic disturbance mav be expressed through physical symptoms. For example, it is widely ...

Emotional Factors in Bronchial Asthma

Controlled study on 30 patients of bronchial asthma was conducted at General Medicine Dept. of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. It has been observed that parental loss or deprivation in childhood per se is a significantly important factor in asthmatics. Asthmatics are found to be reserved, detached, affected by feelings, emotionally less stable, mild, accommodating, shy, timid, tender-minded, depende...