apathy
Let an agent explain apathy in everyday, social and clinical senses, relay clinical assessment and causes in general terms from psychiatric and neurological sources, describe voter apathy with attribution, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain apathy in everyday, social and clinical senses, relay clinical assessment and causes in general terms from psychiatric and neurological sources, describe voter apathy with attribution, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
A lack of interest, motivation, emotion or concern, appearing as a normal transient state, as a social phenomenon such as voter apathy, and as a clinical symptom in depression, dementia, brain injury, Parkinson disease and schizophrenia, with severe neurological forms such as athymhormia or the athymhormic syndrome marked by loss of self-initiated action, apragmatism, and the historical concept of belle indifference in conversion disorder; apathy is assessed with rating scales and treated by addressing its cause.
What it is for: Not applicable; a state and symptom.
It can be explain the senses; relay clinical causes and assessment; describe social apathy; route personal concerns.
Distinguishing features
Reduced motivation
Emotional flattening
Many causes
Distinct from depression
What it looks like
Not a visible object; reduced initiative, emotion and engagement.
Physical character
apathy in Alzheimer disease: about 50-70 percent - prevalence estimates
How it is recognised
Lack of interest, motivation or emotion
Everyday apathy, voter apathy, clinical apathy, athymhormia, apragmatism, belle indifference
Depression involves low mood; fatigue is tiredness; abulia is loss of will, closely related
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, in its clinical form
is a kind of - in registry terms
is distinguished from - by absence of low mood
In practice
Families and kinds
transient everyday apathy
voter and civic apathy
apathy as a symptom in depression, dementia, Parkinson disease and schizophrenia
apathy after brain injury and stroke
athymhormia and the athymhormic syndrome
apragmatism
belle indifference as a historical clinical concept
Identifiers
MeSH D057565 apathy
Standards and regulation
Diagnostic criteria for apathy in neurocognitive disorders
Rating scales such as the Apathy Evaluation Scale
Failure modes and hazards
Mistaking apathy for depression or laziness
Agents giving personal medical advice
Presenting voter apathy explanations as settled
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.apathy-attribute
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What apathy is.
Definition.
Definition
Senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is apathy, and how do everyday, social and clinical senses differ? definition
- Is the question about everyday apathy, voter apathy or a clinical symptom? boundary
Related
Related states.
Related
Related.
- How does apathy differ from depression, fatigue, abulia and indifference? definition
- Which entry fits the specific state? action
Clinical Clinical apathy.
Clinical.
Causes
Causes and syndromes.
Causes
Causes.
- What conditions cause apathy, and what are athymhormia, apragmatism and belle indifference? provenance
- Is the user describing their own or a relative loss of motivation, which needs a clinician? boundary
Assessment
Assessment and treatment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How is apathy assessed and managed, per clinical guidance? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Social Social apathy.
Attribution.
Voter
Voter apathy.
Voter
Voter.
- What is voter apathy, and what do political scientists say about its causes and remedies, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Bystander
Bystander effect.
Bystander
Bystander.
- How does research on the bystander effect relate to apathy? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Philosophy and history.
Context.
Philosophy
Apatheia.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- How does Stoic apatheia differ from modern apathy? provenance
- Which entry fits apatheia? action
History
History of the concept.
History
History.
- How has apathy been understood in medicine and culture over time? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of psychiatry? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should athymhormia and voter apathy be separate entries?
- How should clinical references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming clinical syndromes and a social phenomenon; should they be split off?