Pathogenesis

The pathogenesis ( from Greek πάθος, páthos "suffering ( company), addiction, emotionalism " and γένεσις, génesis " formation, creation, birth" ) describes the emergence and development of a disease with all the factors involved. The detectable by scientific methods expiration of a disease process is also referred to as a pathogenic mechanism. The causes of a disease, however, be dealt with in the etiology.

Differences is the causal from the formal pathogenesis. The causal pathogenesis describes the relationship of pollutant, the disease and disposition, and thus - abridged - of developing the assessment of the individual. The formal pathogenesis applies to the functional and structural disease processes in individual as well as the changes in the organs and their function in the course of a disease.

Using the example of mild flu shown: the virus is the etiology. The overall situation of the individual in front of the contact with the virus, is the causal pathogenesis. The inflammatory processes are part of the formal pathogenesis.

The causal pathogenesis asks how diseases arise, so after like. The formal pathogenesis, however, after the warum.Die problem of formal pathogenesis is due to the pathologist in the fact that the disease progresses in time. Man but in the scientific study gathered only an instantaneous picture. Similarly a brief moment or a few images of an entire movie and the pathologist is forced to reconstruct the course of the disease from a series of snapshots.

The psychosomatic or personalistic medicine is in the development of diseases in addition to biological enhanced psychosocial factors in the foreground. It interprets pathogenesis caused by a general restriction of the individual 's ability to act Origin of Suffering. The aim of this approach is to gain understanding of the function biopsychischer regulatory processes and to promote the patient's own compensation capabilities.