# Make sure patient is in an actual comatose state and is not mistaken for locked-in state ( patient will either be able to voluntarily move his eyes or blink ) or psychogenic unresponsiveness ( caloric stimulation of the vestibular apparatus will result in slow deviation of eyes towards the stimulation followed by rapid correction to mid-line ; this response can't be voluntarily suppressed: therefore, if the patient doesn't have this response, then psychogenic coma can be ruled out as a differential )

A fugue state, formally dissociative fugue or psychogenic fugue ( DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders 300. 13 ), is a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality.

Penile erection is managed by two mechanisms: the reflex erection, which is achieved by directly touching the penile shaft, and the psychogenic erection, which is achieved by erotic or emotional stimuli.

Idiopathic pain ( pain that persists after the trauma or pathology has healed, or that arises without any apparent cause ), may be an exception to the idea that pain is helpful to survival, although some psychodynamic psychologists argue that such pain is psychogenic, enlisted as a protective distraction to keep dangerous emotions unconscious.

This type of seizure is known as a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure and is related to posttraumatic stress disorder.

#" Elevated serum prolactin assay, when measured in the appropriate clinical setting at 10 to 20 minutes after a suspected event, is a useful adjunct for the differentiation of generalized tonic-clonic or complex partial seizure from psychogenic nonepileptic seizure among adults and older children ( Level B ).

Habit drinking ( in its severest form termed psychogenic polydipsia ) is the most common imitator of diabetes insipidus at all ages.

A study by psychologist Rachel E. Goldsmith and others suggests that Lear's temporary amnesia of his daughters ' betrayal is consistent with psychogenic amnesia.

Both films focus on the nightmare as it is expressed in the elusive doubling of characters and in the incorporation of the “ psychogenic fugue ,” the evacuation and replacement of identities, something that was also central to the voodoo ritual.

Often categorized under euvolemic is hyponatremia due to inadequate urine solute as occurs in beer potomania or " tea and toast " hyponatremia, hyponatremia due to hypothyroidism or adrenal insufficiency, and those rare instances of hyponatremia that are truly secondary to excess water intake ( i. e., extreme psychogenic polydipsia )

A psychogenic dysphagia is known as phagophobia.

In 85 % of cases it is due to either asthma, pneumonia, cardiac ischemia, interstitial lung disease, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or psychogenic causes.

Mass hysteria presenting as collective symptoms of disease is sometimes referred to as mass psychogenic illness or epidemic hysteria.

The phenomenon of tarantism is consistent with mass psychogenic illness.

While psychogenic pain and pain disorder are accepted diagnoses in the medical community, the TMS modality is more controversial.

Differentiating between psychogenic ( perceived ) asthenia and true asthenia with muscular weakness is often difficult, and in time apparent psychogenic asthenia accompanying many chronic disorders is seen to progress into a primary weakness.

) is an extreme form of a culture-specific syndrome or sociogenic illness, that produces a particular form of psychosomatic or psychophysiological disorder, which results in a psychogenic death.

Prolactin levels may be of some use in distinguishing epileptic seizures from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.

Bates appears to have suffered from a strange episode of amnesia ( or possibly psychogenic fugue ), referred to in his obituary, perhaps wrongly as ' a strange form of aphasia '.

During a psychogenic sexual experience, signals from the brain are sent to the sacral parasympathetic cell bodies at spinal levels S2-S4 and in case of men, are then relayed to the penis where they trigger an erection.

According to Peter Breggin ’ s Toxic Psychiatry, the psychogenic theory of autism was abandoned for political pressure from parents ' organizations, not for scientific reasons.

* distinguishing epileptic seizures from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

This can explain that conversion disorder may develop following a threatening situation, that there may be a group effect with many people simultaneously developing similar symptoms ( as in mass psychogenic illness ), and the gender difference in prevalence.

This could be described as a psychogenic form of amnesia with mild anterograde and retrograde loss.

It is, however, understood as a mass psychogenic illness in which the occurrence of similar physical symptoms, with no known physical cause, affect a large group of people as a form of social influence.

Retrieved 2008-11-05 .</ ref > Headache, back pain, and stomach pain are sometimes diagnosed as psychogenic.

Lloyd deMause, the pioneer of psychohistory, has described a system of psychogenic modes ( see below ) which describe the range of styles of parenting he has observed historically and across cultures.

According to the psychogenic theory, since Neanderthal man most tribes and families practiced infanticide, child mutilation, incest and beating of their children throughout prehistory and history.

In contrast, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are rare between midnight and 6 a m. and never occur during sleep.

Other possible conditions that can mimic a seizure include: decerebrate posturing, psychogenic seizures, dystonia, migraine headaches, and strychnine poisoning.

Napping also helps prevent psychogenic effects ( i. e. the effect of sickness being magnified by thinking about it ).

During filming, Deborah Wuliger, the unit publicist, came upon the idea of a psychogenic fugue which Lynch and Gifford subsequently incorporated into the film.

Sometimes referred to as mass psychogenic illness or epidemic hysteria.

Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.

The change in perceptions by some of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects, after they had been informed of the possibilities of normal reactions, suggests that their constriction and guardedness is associated with their general mode of responding to strange or unknown situations.

probably it is correct to think of it as a matter of a well-grooved, stereotyped mode of expression -- and no, or but a few, other communicational grooves, as yet -- being there, available for the patient's use, as newly-emerging emotions and ideas well up in him over the course of months.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

It is clear that non-violent resistance is a mode of action in need of justification and limitation in Christian morality, like any other form of resistance.

The justification in Christian conscience of the use of any mode of resistance also lays down its limitation -- in the distinction between the persons against whom pressure is primarily directed, those upon whom it may be permitted also to fall, and those who may never be directly repressed for the sake even of achieving some great good.

* For a normal distribution, the arithmetic mean is equal to both the median and the mode, other measures of central tendency.

It lacks the inflections of English, such as tense and number, and does not use articles such as " the ", but its spatial mode of expression has enabled it to develop an elaborate system of grammatical aspect that is absent from English.

Amber is a unique preservational mode, preserving otherwise unfossilizable parts of organisms ; as such it is helpful in the reconstruction of ecosystems as well as organisms ; the chemical composition of the resin, however, is of limited utility in reconstructing the phylogenetic affinity of the resin producer.

* Aperture priority, Av ( Aperture value ) is a common abbreviation on a camera mode dial

However, an important mode of transportation is the government subsidized ' Colectivo ' cab system.

Amplitude modulation ( AM ) is used, and the conversation is performed in simplex mode.