Adynamia
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| R53 | Malaise and fatigue |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
Under Adynamia (Greek: αδυναμία , adynamia , asthenia) refers to a general fatigue and a strong force and listlessness .
Psychology, medicine
The term has both a psychological and a pathophysiological dimension. Adynamia can occur, for example, as a result of mental illness, in the context of existing physical illnesses or metabolic imbalances, such as hypothyroidism , Addison's disease , hypercalcemia , hypokalemia , various muscular dystrophies or after long-term use of cannabis . Further clinical pictures are the A. episodica hereditaria (also Gamstorp syndrome ) and the affective adynamia in narcolepsy . This leads to periodically flaccid, persistent paralysis of about an hour in the extremities and trunk as a result of an autosomal dominant hereditary disorder of potassium metabolism. One can distinguish between the hyper- and hypokalemic type.
According to Lurija, the term adynamia of language ( verbal adynamia ) describes a special form of aphasia .
philosophy
Aristotle uses the term in the sense of inability as a privative contrast to the ability to act (potentiality). Heidegger uses the term inefficiency for this .
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Farke, Monika Baars, Hildegard Graß, Klaus Hurrelmann: Drugs in children and adolescents. Legal and illegal substances in medical practice. Thieme, 2002, p. 63 ISBN 9783131306111
- ↑ I. Gamstorp: Adynamia episodica hereditaria , in: Human Heredity, vol. 7, No. 2 (1957), pp. 325-328.
- ^ Matti Laine: On the mechanisms of verbal dynamia. Neuropsychological study, vol. 185, 1989.
- ↑ Dirk Setton: Inability. The potentiality of practical reason. Zurich 2012.
