Neurasthenia is still included in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases and is still sometimes diagnosed in Japan and China, but in America, American-itis is ...

Those fascinating twists of science and medicine are documented at The College of Physicians in Philadelphia. Dr. Robert Hicks -- the director of The Mutter Museum -- sheds some light on neurasthenia.

Neurasthenia fell out of favor with the medical profession in the early 20th century, as science discovered the impact of hormones and vitamins, and as Sigmund Freud introduced a more nuanced ...

Video: Victorian slum that was demolished in the Second World War is discovered under a Cornish street by construction workers and reveals ‘time capsule’ of fire places, oven doors and floor tiles ...

The mental and physical symptoms of exhaustion play a key role in various past and present diagnoses, including acedia, melancholia, neurasthenia, depression, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

If you're constantly knackered, and being told by your parents that you need to stop 'burning the candle at both ends' (classic Mum phrase) then we've got a diagnosis for you. You've got neurasthenia.

Neurasthenia was strongly gendered, but it was an acceptable, even prestigious disease for male intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists.

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Neurasthenia; Its Causes and Its Home Treatment ...

The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, “Americanitis,” in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life.

THIS book is principally an appreciation of the late Dr. L. S. Barnes. It describes his attitude to neurasthenia and his method of treating the neurasthenic, which appears to have been by the ...

A neurasthenia diagnosis was originally a mark of refinement, of being cultured. In classical antiquity and also in the Romantic era, melancholics were often associated with exceptionality ...