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George Miller Beard (May 8, 1839 – January 23, 1883) was an American neurologist who popularized the term neurasthenia, starting around 1869. Beard is remembered best for having defined neurasthenia as a medical condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, impotence, neuralgia and depression, as a result of exhaustion of ...
Ao questionar-se sobre as razoes da freqiiencia tao expressiva, em seu pais, da neurastenia e de outros fenomenos ligados a angustia, Beard nao hesitou em afirmar: a resposta a este problema deve ser buscada nao tanto na natureza, inas nas caracteristicas peculiares do modo de vida americano.
A neurastenia surgiu como categoria em meados de 1869, a partir das primeiras publicações do neurologista nova-iorquino George Miller Beard (1838-1883), até então profundo estu-dioso de métodos de eletrização, tendo publicado obras de referência para o uso médico desses métodos.
- Rafaela Teixeira Zorzanelli
- 2009
Apresenta a categoria médica da neurastenia, criada em solo estadunidense no fim do século XIX pelo neurologista George Beard. São apresentadas as características gerais do quadro clínico, bem como as principais hipóteses explicativas para os sintomas, e as proposições terapêuticas sugeridas nas obras do referido autor.
DR. GEORGE BEARD, an eminent American neurologist and psychiatrist, was born at Montville, Connecticut, on May 8, 1839, the son of a Congrega-tionalist minister. He studied medicine at Yale,...
Citation. Beard, G. M. (1881). American nervousness: Its causes and consequences. G P Putnam's Sons. https:// https://doi.org/10.1037/10585-000. Abstract. This work is designed as a supplement to the author's work on Neurasthenia (Nervous Exhaustion).
This article deals with the history of the terminological and nosological development of the concept neurasthenia introduced in 1869 by George Miller Beard and in particular with its reappearance in western medicine in the 1980 s. Beginning with its predecessors in antiquity and continuing with hypo ….
