neurovegetative | nervous system-related

Definition: Symptoms are presented by the patient as if they were due to a physical disorder of a system or organ that is largely or completely under autonomic innervation and control, i.e. the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital systems. The symptoms are usually of two types, neither of which indicates a physical disorder of the organ or system concerned. First, there are complaints based upon objective signs of autonomic arousal, such as palpitations, sweating, flushing, tremor, and expression of fear and distress about the possibility of a physical disorder. Second, there are subjective complaints of a nonspec ...[+++]ific or changing nature such as fleeting aches and pains, sensations of burning, heaviness, tightness, and feelings of being bloated or distended, which are referred by the patient to a specific organ or system. | Cardiac neurosis Da Costa's syndrome Gastric neurosis Neurocirculatory asthenia Psychogenic forms of:aerophagy | cough | diarrhoea | dyspepsia | dysuria | flatulence | hiccough | hyperventilation | increased frequency of micturition | irritable bowel syndrome | pylorospasm

Definition: Any other disorders of sensation, function and behaviour, not due to physical disorders, which are not mediated through the autonomic nervous system, which are limited to specific systems or parts of the body, and which are closely associated in time with stressful events or problems. | Psychogenic:dysmenorrhoea | dysphagia, including globus hystericus | pruritus | torticollis | Teeth-grinding

Drug-induced autonomic dysfunction

Somatoform autonomic dysfunction

cloaca | waste passage

athetosis | cerebral palsy

In the field of TSEs, the most important opinions relate to Chronic Wasting Disease, the safety of phosphates derived from bovine bones, the BSE risk of the bovine autonomic nervous system and the field trial evaluation of two new rapid BSE post mortem tests.