Observations on Heredity in Neurosis

Institutional Neurosis

Radiation effects on human heredity.

In experimental organisms such as fruit flies and mice, increased frequencies in germ cell mutations have been detected following exposure to ionizing radiation. In contrast, there has been no clear evidence for radiation-induced germ cell mutations in humans that lead to birth defects, chromosome aberrations, Mendelian disorders, etc. This situation exists partly because no sensitive and pract...

Geriforte in Anxiety Neurosis*

T h e clinical spectrum of anxiety ranges from a normal experience to a psychopathological state. Anxious patients usually present with symptoms that can be divided into four major groups: 1. Subjective feeling 2. Cognitive disturbances 3. Behavioural changes, and 4. Somatic complaints Patients with anxiety experience loss of confidence in their daily activities with autonomic hyperactivity and...

Life Events in Anxiety Neurosis

The study was carried out on 84 patients of anxiety neurosis and 47 controls. Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (PSLES) of Singh et al. (1984) was utilized for eliciting life events experienced by patients and controls during life time and 6 months prior to the onset of illness by an open ended interview. The frequency and stress scores of total life event and different categories of life...

Compensation neurosis.

The concept of compensation neurosis developed in the wake of the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution and subsequent enactment of workmen's compensation laws. The nosologic designation of traumatic neurosis was not consensually accepted until after World War II; the compensation label was epithetically applied as a simplistic explanation of puzzling postaccident disability. In diagnostic e...