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Stupor. Stupor. A patient in catatonic stupor. Specialty. Neurology, Psychiatry. Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness, in which an affected person is almost entirely unresponsive and responds only to intense stimuli such as pain. [ 1] The word derives from the Latin stupor ("numbness, insensibility").
Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, after-dinner dip, or "the itis") is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal tract, and a ...
Reports of stupor-like and catatonia-like states abound in the history of psychiatry. [67] After the middle of the 19th century there was an increase of interest in the motor disorders accompanying madness, [68] culminating in the publication by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum in 1874 of Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein ("Catatonia or Tension ...
Divers uncovered a 3,000-year-old clay figurine in Italy's Lake Bolsena, revealing human fingerprints and shedding light on Iron Age rituals. Discover the story.
Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and obtained a large sample ...
Blake Lively is taking care of her fans! On Thursday, Aug. 8, the actress, 36, shared her coat with a young girl who was visibly overcome with emotion at the U.K. gala screening of her movie It ...
Frederick II ( German: Friedrich; Italian: Federico; Latin: Fridericus; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225. He was the son of Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (the second son of Emperor ...
The latest reading on the Fed Reserve's preferred inflation gauge comes just days before the Fed's next policy meeting as investors look for clues on when interest rate cuts might begin.