Hyperesthesia

A hyperesthesia is generally a hypersensitivity and increased excitability of the emotional and sensory nerves.

The opposite of this are hypoaesthesia (decreased sensitivity) and anesthesia ( numbness ).

neurology

In neurology, this describes an oversensitivity to (primarily non-painful) touch stimuli, especially the skin.

It is one of the disorders of epicritical sensitivity . Hyperesthesia can occur, for example, in the supply area of ​​a certain peripheral nerve or a spinal nerve root or in the edge zone of a loss of sensitivity.

psychology

In psychology and psychiatry , hyperesthesia stands for a generally pathologically increased excitability . Ernst Kretschmer also used the term to describe the heightened emotional sensitivity of schizoid personalities .

See also

• Allodynia
• Hyperacusis
• Hyperalgesia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hyperesthesia. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved October 29, 2019
2. ^ Walter Fröscher: Neurology with revision course . Walter de Gruyter, 1991, ISBN 3-11-085029-X , pp. 208–.
3. ↑ hyperesthesia . In: Wortschatz-Lexikon , Uni Leipzig
4. ↑ Guido Pliska: Gottfried Benn and the schizoid. 2009. doi: 10.1007 / s00115-009-2859-1 : “The key to schizoid temperaments is held by those who have clearly grasped that most schizoids are not either overly sensitive or cool, but that they are overly sensitive and cool at the same time, and in very different mixing ratios. "(Ernst Kretschmer)

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