Talk:Athymhormic syndrome

Hello, I am a student of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and I will be improving this page as part of a class assignment. Dramisphere (talk) 08:23, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

A sentence needs to be deleted from this article
In particular, the sentence "For example, a patient with this syndrome might sustain severe burns on contact with a hot stove, due to lacking the will to move away despite experiencing severe pain." I have read over a dozen journal articles on Athymhormia for a project I am doing and I have never seen anything at all that even approaches this as a description of Athymhormia. I notice this was added by "Dryman (talk | contribs) at 21:08, 15 August 2006 (rewrote article)." Dryman doesn't seem to be active now, or I would ask him for his source.

The closest I have seen to an athymhormia patient causing self-harm was a woman who laid out in the Sun for several hours which caused 2nd-degree sunburn. This is quite different from a hand on a hot plate. From everything I've read these patients have fully intact functioning automatic behaviors. These patients are mostly just missing "thoughtful" behaviors that are self-initiated. Pulling your hand off of a hot plate is clearly an automatic behavior which would be intact.

In fact, I could write a much better description of the condition, with references! Should I? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrankH (talk • contribs) 05:20, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Athymhormia and Athymhormic syndrome
I'm perhaps the opposite of an expert here but are Athymhormia and Athymhormic syndrome not essentially the same topic? They're both more or less stub articles but each has some information not in the other, and so if they are indeed the same topic as they appear to me to be, I'll propose a merge. I'm posting this discussion on that article's talk page as well since the pages don't seem to get so much traffic. Kimen8 (talk) 11:40, 29 March 2024 (UTC)