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neurologist. George Miller Beard (May 8, 1839 – January 23, 1883) was an American neurologist who popularized the term neurasthenia, starting around 1869. Beard is remembered best for having defined neurasthenia as a medical condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, impotence, neuralgia and depression, as a result of ...
George Miller Beard consagró su vida a la investigación de variados y heterogéneos tópicos en medicina (Beard, 1871a, 1871b, 1882) pero, sin lugar a dudas, su inscripción definitiva en la historia de la psicopatología norteamericana y europea estuvo sustentada por el estudio de la enfermedad nerviosa que
6 de may. de 2024 · GEORGE BEARD, an eminent American neurologist and psychiatrist, was born at Montville, Connecticut, on May 8, 1839, the son of a Congrega-tionalist minister. He studied medicine at Yale, where...
Beard pasa a la historia por haber sido el creador del concepto de Neurastenia en 1879. En Inglaterra había desaparecido el término Neurosis, creado curiosamente Cullen, un autor ingles fundamental, y fue sustituido por otros, entre ello, el de Spinal irritation.
The George Miller Beard Papers provide limited but valuable information on the life and work of Beard from 1865 to 1883. Though incomplete, they do provide a sampling of his work on nervous diseases, electrotherapeutics, insanity, and spiritualism.
[clarification needed] It became a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist George Miller Beard reintroduced the concept in 1869. As a psychopathological term, the first to publish on neurasthenia was Michigan alienist E. H. Van Deusen of the Kalamazoo asylum in 1869.
the American physician George Miller Beard (1839-1883), whose pioneer work on " American nervousness " (1881) was taken seriously by Freud in 1895, may be of interest to historians of American culture and of pathologi-cal psychology. Arthur Schlesinger has referred to Dr. Beard's work as a
