N = 50 (about 1/2 of sample) Foreign-born and US Natives Boston (ages 18-30, M = 21.80, 65% female, 50% foreign born) Subjective Stress and Scales. (available in 4 languages): Perceived Stress In the last month, how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high.
Asterixis is a tremor or movement disorder characterized by movement of hands and wrists that resembles flapping of wings. There is arrhythmic flexion movements of the hands with outstretched arms and dorsiflexion of the wrists. This tremor experienced is involuntary and cannot be controlled by the individual.
Asterixis is associated with various encephalopathies due especially to faulty metabolism. The term derives from the Greek a, not and stÄrixis, fixed position. Asterixis is the inability to maintain posture due to a metabolic encephalopathy.This can be elicited on physical exam by having the patient extend their arms and bend their hands back. Asterixis is seen most often in drowsy or stuporous patients with metabolic encephalopathies, especially in decompensated cirrhosis or acute liver failure. 2  It is also seen in some patients with kidney failure and azotemia, and in carbon dioxide toxicity.