There are numerous eponyms, ie the nicknames of pathologies, which draw on literary characters. They help to better frame the characteristics of the patients
Eternally dissatisfied and with a sense of inner emptiness, in the perennial search for a sense of existence, but unable to take root in both work and emotional life? Maybe you suffer from Huckleberry Finn syndrome, characterized precisely by this psychological profile. The name of the syndrome comes from the novel by the American writer Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884. So it is an eponymic syndrome, that is defined starting from a proper name. In ancient Greek the word epnymos composed of the particle ep which means “above” and the term noma which means “name explains Anna Rizzi of the University of Bari, who studied eponyms in Medicine. In fact, Huckleberry Finn syndrome is not part of the true psychiatric or psychological nomenclature, and more a popular creation. But there are many disorders or diseases officially known in medicine with names taken from characters in novels or short stories.
Peter Pan
Like the Peter Pan syndrome, which refers to the literary character created by the British writer James Matthew Barrie, which also became a famous Walt Disney cartoon. Peter Pan syndrome characterized by a peculiar psychological profile: the attempt not to grow up, to never have to assume the responsibilities of adult life. Those who suffer from it find a way to continually postpone the transition to the world of work, escapes too demanding emotional relationships, can get involved in irresponsible activities that would be typical of adolescence or early youth. Dan Kiley in the 1980s he called it a situation in which a person finds himself trapped in a kind of limbo between the adult who does not want to become and the child who can no longer be. The new Peter Pan may also show a certain interest in a career choice, but generally he does not feel inclined to the path or the effort necessary to get there, and so he always remains halfway across the ford. has also been fine-tuned a psychological rating scale for testing the tendency towards peterpanity.
Alice
To remain in the field of children’s literature, the spectacular eponymic syndrome Alice in Wonderland syndrome, first described in 1955. It is a disturbance of perception, both visual and of one’s own body scheme, with a simultaneous alteration of the sense of the passage of time. The name comes from the very famous book by Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer. In the tale, Alice feels her body becoming huge or very small and has different perceptions that could be classified as hallucinatory forms. Cases of this syndrome have recently been studied with modern brain imaging techniques. While in most cases some typical sensations of this syndrome, such as an apparent change in the size of objects and even of one’s body, may be observed in passing form in several adolescents, in some cases with persistent and marked symptoms, a combined ophthalmological and neurological study may be necessary.
Cinderella
There is instead thejuvenile myoclonic epilepsy at the basis of what has been called the Cinderella syndrome, by the well-known fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm who in turn reported this traditional story in their famous collection of fairy tales. The definition arises from the fact that in some cases the drug treatment of this form of epilepsy fails to control the onset of seizures. Then these patients are recommended to lead a regulated life, which mainly includes ensuring an adequate number of hours of regular sleep and abstinence from the intake of significant quantities of alcohol. Recommendations that, according to what was also reported in a recent study published in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior by a group of Irish neurologists, are perceived by patients as a kind of curfew, which causes them to limitations in social life. Forcing them, just like Cinderella, to have to go home when the party is still going on.
When the disease bears the name of the person who discovered it
Adult literature has also been the inspiration for several eponymic syndromes, probably the most famous of which Pickwick’s syndrome, name of the character described by Charles Dickens, characterized by obesity, drowsiness, difficulty in breathing. And then there is Mnchausen’s syndrome, named after Baron von Mnchausen, the bizarre protagonist of a novel by Rudolf Erich Raspe. a psychic disorder that induces those who suffer from it to simulate non-existent psychic or physical symptoms and to turn to multiple health facilities in search of useless and inevitably harmful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the vast majority of eponymic syndromes in medicine actually refer not to literary characters but to doctors or researchers in flesh and blood who have attributed their names to diseases or procedures they have discovered or invented, such as the Parkinson’s disease. Anna Rizzi’s book, Dictionary of clinical eponyms (Stilo editore, 2015) reports on it about 800, all carefully described.
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There are numerous eponyms, ie the nicknames of pathologies, which draw on literary characters. They help to better frame the characteristics of the patients
Eternally dissatisfied and with a sense of inner emptiness, in the perennial search for a sense of existence, but unable to take root in both work and emotional life? Maybe you suffer from Huckleberry Finn syndrome, characterized precisely by this psychological profile. The name of the syndrome comes from the novel by the American writer Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884. So it is an eponymic syndrome, that is defined starting from a proper name. In ancient Greek the word epnymos composed of the particle ep which means “above” and the term noma which means “name explains Anna Rizzi of the University of Bari, who studied eponyms in Medicine. In fact, Huckleberry Finn syndrome is not part of the true psychiatric or psychological nomenclature, and more a popular creation. But there are many disorders or diseases officially known in medicine with names taken from characters in novels or short stories.
Peter Pan
Like the Peter Pan syndrome, which refers to the literary character created by the British writer James Matthew Barrie, which also became a famous Walt Disney cartoon. Peter Pan syndrome characterized by a peculiar psychological profile: the attempt not to grow up, to never have to assume the responsibilities of adult life. Those who suffer from it find a way to continually postpone the transition to the world of work, escapes too demanding emotional relationships, can get involved in irresponsible activities that would be typical of adolescence or early youth. Dan Kiley in the 1980s he called it a situation in which a person finds himself trapped in a kind of limbo between the adult who does not want to become and the child who can no longer be. The new Peter Pan may also show a certain interest in a career choice, but generally he does not feel inclined to the path or the effort necessary to get there, and so he always remains halfway across the ford. has also been fine-tuned a psychological rating scale for testing the tendency towards peterpanity.
Alice
To remain in the field of children’s literature, the spectacular eponymic syndrome Alice in Wonderland syndrome, first described in 1955. It is a disturbance of perception, both visual and of one’s own body scheme, with a simultaneous alteration of the sense of the passage of time. The name comes from the very famous book by Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer. In the tale, Alice feels her body becoming huge or very small and has different perceptions that could be classified as hallucinatory forms. Cases of this syndrome have recently been studied with modern brain imaging techniques. While in most cases some typical sensations of this syndrome, such as an apparent change in the size of objects and even of one’s body, may be observed in passing form in several adolescents, in some cases with persistent and marked symptoms, a combined ophthalmological and neurological study may be necessary.
Cinderella
There is instead thejuvenile myoclonic epilepsy at the basis of what has been called the Cinderella syndrome, by the well-known fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm who in turn reported this traditional story in their famous collection of fairy tales. The definition arises from the fact that in some cases the drug treatment of this form of epilepsy fails to control the onset of seizures. Then these patients are recommended to lead a regulated life, which mainly includes ensuring an adequate number of hours of regular sleep and abstinence from the intake of significant quantities of alcohol. Recommendations that, according to what was also reported in a recent study published in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior by a group of Irish neurologists, are perceived by patients as a kind of curfew, which causes them to limitations in social life. Forcing them, just like Cinderella, to have to go home when the party is still going on.
When the disease bears the name of the person who discovered it
Adult literature has also been the inspiration for several eponymic syndromes, probably the most famous of which Pickwick’s syndrome, name of the character described by Charles Dickens, characterized by obesity, drowsiness, difficulty in breathing. And then there is Mnchausen’s syndrome, named after Baron von Mnchausen, the bizarre protagonist of a novel by Rudolf Erich Raspe. a psychic disorder that induces those who suffer from it to simulate non-existent psychic or physical symptoms and to turn to multiple health facilities in search of useless and inevitably harmful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the vast majority of eponymic syndromes in medicine actually refer not to literary characters but to doctors or researchers in flesh and blood who have attributed their names to diseases or procedures they have discovered or invented, such as the Parkinson’s disease. Anna Rizzi’s book, Dictionary of clinical eponyms (Stilo editore, 2015) reports on it about 800, all carefully described.
October 5, 2021 (change October 5, 2021 | 19:25)
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There are numerous eponyms, ie the nicknames of pathologies, which draw on literary characters. They help to better frame the characteristics of the patients
Eternally dissatisfied and with a sense of inner emptiness, in the perennial search for a sense of existence, but unable to take root in both work and emotional life? Maybe you suffer from Huckleberry Finn syndrome, characterized precisely by this psychological profile. The name of the syndrome comes from the novel by the American writer Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884. So it is an eponymic syndrome, that is defined starting from a proper name. In ancient Greek the word epnymos composed of the particle ep which means “above” and the term noma which means “name explains Anna Rizzi of the University of Bari, who studied eponyms in Medicine. In fact, Huckleberry Finn syndrome is not part of the true psychiatric or psychological nomenclature, and more a popular creation. But there are many disorders or diseases officially known in medicine with names taken from characters in novels or short stories.
Peter Pan
Like the Peter Pan syndrome, which refers to the literary character created by the British writer James Matthew Barrie, which also became a famous Walt Disney cartoon. Peter Pan syndrome characterized by a peculiar psychological profile: the attempt not to grow up, to never have to assume the responsibilities of adult life. Those who suffer from it find a way to continually postpone the transition to the world of work, escapes too demanding emotional relationships, can get involved in irresponsible activities that would be typical of adolescence or early youth. Dan Kiley in the 1980s he called it a situation in which a person finds himself trapped in a kind of limbo between the adult who does not want to become and the child who can no longer be. The new Peter Pan may also show a certain interest in a career choice, but generally he does not feel inclined to the path or the effort necessary to get there, and so he always remains halfway across the ford. has also been fine-tuned a psychological rating scale for testing the tendency towards peterpanity.
Alice
To remain in the field of children’s literature, the spectacular eponymic syndrome Alice in Wonderland syndrome, first described in 1955. It is a disturbance of perception, both visual and of one’s own body scheme, with a simultaneous alteration of the sense of the passage of time. The name comes from the very famous book by Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer. In the tale, Alice feels her body becoming huge or very small and has different perceptions that could be classified as hallucinatory forms. Cases of this syndrome have recently been studied with modern brain imaging techniques. While in most cases some typical sensations of this syndrome, such as an apparent change in the size of objects and even of one’s body, may be observed in passing form in several adolescents, in some cases with persistent and marked symptoms, a combined ophthalmological and neurological study may be necessary.
Cinderella
There is instead thejuvenile myoclonic epilepsy at the basis of what has been called the Cinderella syndrome, by the well-known fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm who in turn reported this traditional story in their famous collection of fairy tales. The definition arises from the fact that in some cases the drug treatment of this form of epilepsy fails to control the onset of seizures. Then these patients are recommended to lead a regulated life, which mainly includes ensuring an adequate number of hours of regular sleep and abstinence from the intake of significant quantities of alcohol. Recommendations that, according to what was also reported in a recent study published in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior by a group of Irish neurologists, are perceived by patients as a kind of curfew, which causes them to limitations in social life. Forcing them, just like Cinderella, to have to go home when the party is still going on.
When the disease bears the name of the person who discovered it
Adult literature has also been the inspiration for several eponymic syndromes, probably the most famous of which Pickwick’s syndrome, name of the character described by Charles Dickens, characterized by obesity, drowsiness, difficulty in breathing. And then there is Mnchausen’s syndrome, named after Baron von Mnchausen, the bizarre protagonist of a novel by Rudolf Erich Raspe. a psychic disorder that induces those who suffer from it to simulate non-existent psychic or physical symptoms and to turn to multiple health facilities in search of useless and inevitably harmful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the vast majority of eponymic syndromes in medicine actually refer not to literary characters but to doctors or researchers in flesh and blood who have attributed their names to diseases or procedures they have discovered or invented, such as the Parkinson’s disease. Anna Rizzi’s book, Dictionary of clinical eponyms (Stilo editore, 2015) reports on it about 800, all carefully described.
October 5, 2021 (change October 5, 2021 | 19:25)
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There are numerous eponyms, ie the nicknames of pathologies, which draw on literary characters. They help to better frame the characteristics of the patients
Eternally dissatisfied and with a sense of inner emptiness, in the perennial search for a sense of existence, but unable to take root in both work and emotional life? Maybe you suffer from Huckleberry Finn syndrome, characterized precisely by this psychological profile. The name of the syndrome comes from the novel by the American writer Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884. So it is an eponymic syndrome, that is defined starting from a proper name. In ancient Greek the word epnymos composed of the particle ep which means “above” and the term noma which means “name explains Anna Rizzi of the University of Bari, who studied eponyms in Medicine. In fact, Huckleberry Finn syndrome is not part of the true psychiatric or psychological nomenclature, and more a popular creation. But there are many disorders or diseases officially known in medicine with names taken from characters in novels or short stories.
Peter Pan
Like the Peter Pan syndrome, which refers to the literary character created by the British writer James Matthew Barrie, which also became a famous Walt Disney cartoon. Peter Pan syndrome characterized by a peculiar psychological profile: the attempt not to grow up, to never have to assume the responsibilities of adult life. Those who suffer from it find a way to continually postpone the transition to the world of work, escapes too demanding emotional relationships, can get involved in irresponsible activities that would be typical of adolescence or early youth. Dan Kiley in the 1980s he called it a situation in which a person finds himself trapped in a kind of limbo between the adult who does not want to become and the child who can no longer be. The new Peter Pan may also show a certain interest in a career choice, but generally he does not feel inclined to the path or the effort necessary to get there, and so he always remains halfway across the ford. has also been fine-tuned a psychological rating scale for testing the tendency towards peterpanity.
Alice
To remain in the field of children’s literature, the spectacular eponymic syndrome Alice in Wonderland syndrome, first described in 1955. It is a disturbance of perception, both visual and of one’s own body scheme, with a simultaneous alteration of the sense of the passage of time. The name comes from the very famous book by Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer. In the tale, Alice feels her body becoming huge or very small and has different perceptions that could be classified as hallucinatory forms. Cases of this syndrome have recently been studied with modern brain imaging techniques. While in most cases some typical sensations of this syndrome, such as an apparent change in the size of objects and even of one’s body, may be observed in passing form in several adolescents, in some cases with persistent and marked symptoms, a combined ophthalmological and neurological study may be necessary.
Cinderella
There is instead thejuvenile myoclonic epilepsy at the basis of what has been called the Cinderella syndrome, by the well-known fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm who in turn reported this traditional story in their famous collection of fairy tales. The definition arises from the fact that in some cases the drug treatment of this form of epilepsy fails to control the onset of seizures. Then these patients are recommended to lead a regulated life, which mainly includes ensuring an adequate number of hours of regular sleep and abstinence from the intake of significant quantities of alcohol. Recommendations that, according to what was also reported in a recent study published in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior by a group of Irish neurologists, are perceived by patients as a kind of curfew, which causes them to limitations in social life. Forcing them, just like Cinderella, to have to go home when the party is still going on.
When the disease bears the name of the person who discovered it
Adult literature has also been the inspiration for several eponymic syndromes, probably the most famous of which Pickwick’s syndrome, name of the character described by Charles Dickens, characterized by obesity, drowsiness, difficulty in breathing. And then there is Mnchausen’s syndrome, named after Baron von Mnchausen, the bizarre protagonist of a novel by Rudolf Erich Raspe. a psychic disorder that induces those who suffer from it to simulate non-existent psychic or physical symptoms and to turn to multiple health facilities in search of useless and inevitably harmful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the vast majority of eponymic syndromes in medicine actually refer not to literary characters but to doctors or researchers in flesh and blood who have attributed their names to diseases or procedures they have discovered or invented, such as the Parkinson’s disease. Anna Rizzi’s book, Dictionary of clinical eponyms (Stilo editore, 2015) reports on it about 800, all carefully described.
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