A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 3, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195176681
First sentence: First description of akathisia (1880). In his Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), New York neurologist and electrotherapist George Beard (1839-1883) described as a characteristic of neurasthenia, Fidgetiness and inability to keep still-a sensation that amounts to pain-is sometimes unspeakably distressing. . . .