Effects of Antihistaminic Drugs on the Cardiac Responses to Sympathetic Nerve Stimulation

Effects of Antihistaminic Drugs on the Cardiac Responses to Sympathetic Nerve Stimulation

Creators Matsuda Yasuo

Eight cases of student apathy have been presented. Characteristically, the condition is more often found among male students in late adolescence. The patient rarely seeks the advice of a physician or psychologist of his own will. The mechanism of pathogenesis of the condition is considered to involve the patient's worries attributable to the uncertainty of his identity, which express themselves in the form of selective indifference to his principal task and which precipitate the patient into escaping well in advance from his anticipated defeat and the resultant distasteful insults to be offered by those who are around him. The previous history of the patient is marked with an abnormal relationship between him and his parents. The patient is obsessionalpassive in character. As to the nosological position to be occupied by student apathy, it is reasonable to interpret the condition as something like ”paraneurosis”. Treatment of student apathy is fraught with many problems. In view of the psychological trait of identity-seeking peculiar to late adolescence, it is recommendable to resort to psychological moratorium where

[ISSN]0513-1812

[NCID]AA00594272