hysteria

..To examine the neurologic cinematographic contributions of Gheorghe Marinescu...

Elevated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores on the hysteria (Hy) scale are reported in several forms of pain...

Histories of shell-shock have argued that the diagnosis was subdivided into the categories hysteria and neurasthenia, and that the differential distribution and treatment of these diagnoses was shaped by class and gender expectations...

..radical hypothesis that similar brain processes were responsible for the unexplained neurological symptoms of 'hysteria', now typically diagnosed as 'conversion disorder' or 'dissociative (conversion) disorder', and the temporary ..

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..Here we report a case of insulinoma masquerading as hysteria, whose final diagnosis could be made using high-dose calcium stimulation test...

The case of a 31-member family displaying mass hysteria in up to 10 members at one time is reported. The mass hysteria emerged in the context of the strong religious and cultural beliefs held by this closely knit family...

..We aimed to determine how frequently this misdiagnosis occurs, and whether it has become less common since the widespread availability of brain imaging...

..Fits of unconsciousness and aphonia were the commonest presentation in female and male patients respectively. Duration of stay was 2-3 days and most of the patient responded well to different treatment modalities...

..Indeed they may be unaware that such events have been recorded before. The lessons learned from this incident in Jordan may help other immunization programme managers to handle crisis situations elsewhere...

Annual outbreaks of mass motor hysteria have been observed in the past during some religious celebrations...

..Among male participants, elevations of Scales 1 (Hypochondriasis), 3 (Hysteria), and 5 (Masculinity/Femininity) predicted increases in number of chronic pain conditions at follow-up...

..Significant numbers of patients with MS had been misdiagnosed with other diseases such as hysteria and neurosyphilis; over time, they were increasingly diagnosed correctly.

..Providing reassuring messages during a public health incident may be ineffective for individuals with high health anxiety (hypochondriasis)...

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..To determine if ictal stuttering (IS) is more common among patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) than patients with epileptic seizures (ES)...

..Freud and Janet explained the physical symptoms of hysteria using radically different models of the mind...

..study of artistic representations of "possessed states", which allowed him to refine his work on hysteria. The artist and the scientist are two unique facets of Charcot, whose permanent coexistence help to understand ..

..Pierre Janet's detailed description of his discovery, made during the 1880s, that he could cure hysteria by creating a healthy second personality offers a close look at a form of multiple personalities very different ..

..No less interesting but greatly neglected is the life of Bertha Pappenheim, the real identity of Anna O...

..When clusters of unexplained illness occur, a sociogenic etiology should be considered in the differential diagnosis. As fears about bioterrorism increase, the frequency of such incidents and the anxiety generated may increase...

..with the encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s, with 'spasmodic yawning,' with epilepsy, not to speak of hysteria. As to boredom or its stimulus, a 40-page dissertation survives from the court of Frederick the Great of the 18th ..

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..This case represents the first instance of reported pseudoseizures in a patient with hysterical stridor secondary to childhood sexual abuse...

..It is fundamental that the doctors recognize these conditions in order to avoid the relational pitfalls, which would hinder the diagnostic and therapeutic approach...

Patients with low back pain without a sufficient physical cause attract labels such as "hysteria" and "hypochondriasis," often on the basis of exclusion...

..Psychiatric group means were significantly higher than AD group means for scales Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria at an alpha of .01...

..Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is a descriptor for nonspecific complaints that are attributed to environmental exposure...

François Sirois' influential paradigm for diagnosing episodes of epidemic hysteria is discussed...

It is difficult to imagine motor symptoms in psychiatry as different as hysteria and catatonia...

..We found significant differences in mean scores on MMPI-2 clinical scales 1 (Hypochondriasis) and 3 (Hysteria) and Harris-Lingoes subscales D5 (Brooding) and Sc5 (Lack of Ego Mastery, Defective Inhibition) across PNES ..

The last half of the 19 th century has been described as "the golden age of hysteria"...

..Psychiatric symptoms arise from their autonomic nervous dysfunction and show emotional instabilities which are often regarded as hysterical overacting...

..To characterize the personality profile of glaucoma subjects...

..In contrast, subjective seizure manifestations and the biographic or clinical context in which they occur have been relatively neglected...

..The purpose of this study was to elucidate the psychological profiles of patients newly diagnosed with PVFD using psychometrically-sound psychological assessment instruments...

..This formulation is based on the interpersonal model of somatization. The authors propose testing of this conceptualization and indicate how this might be done...

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..The present article uses their studies of hypochondria as a male form of hysteria to show their similarities and differences...

..CONCLUSION: Although there is strong evidence that gender plays a role in responses to stress and trauma, gender specificity is not well-incorporated into clinical services or research in the area of PTSD...

..He disagreed with Charcot's theatrical interpretation of hysteria and made a subtle distinction between Suggestion and Persuasion, thereby differentiating Hysteria from Pithiatism...

..But he was also a therapist, moving from palliative treatment to give a great impulse in the development of French Neurosurgery...

..The issue of diagnosing collective psychogenic illness will continue to be a major public health challenge, exacerbated by widespread anxieties over the threat of chemical and biological weapons and fears of contamination...

..RECENT FINDINGS: Various terms are nowadays used to denote mass hysteria, such as 'mass psychogenic illness' and 'mass sociogenic illness'...

..The symptomatology and clinical presentation of nonaffective functional psychoses at first admission do not allow any prognostic longer-term forecast, and the initial differences between individual psychoses tend to disappear over time...

..Society of the Netherlands (1928) Seidl had no doubt of the authenticity of these phenomena, and he diagnosed hysteria. While under surveillance by four nuns for 14 days, Neumann exhibited no intake of nourishment; weight ..

Freud early in the history of analysis viewed hysteria in relation to trauma. This became a subject of great interest to Ferenczi particularly in his clinical activities in trying to find the balance between fantasy and trauma...

..be the case for some unitary symptoms such as anxiety or anger, but not for complex diagnostic conditions such as Hysteria, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder...

..A general health survey including a cross-sectional study of 404 men and women aged 50 years who underwent follow-up evaluation at ages 60 and 70 years...

..These disorders are not evaluated in a systematic manner in patients with non-lesional epilepsy, so they could be underestimated. The objective is to evaluate personality disorders in patients with non-lesional epilepsy...

..Dried passion flower (genus Passiflora) is reported to reduce insomnia and hysteria. Skullcap (genus Scutellaria), hops (Humulus lupulus), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) and Valerian (Valeriana ..

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..This is a structured, evidence-based review of all available studies addressing the concept of nonorganic findings: Waddell signs (WSs)...

..High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain...

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..Differential diagnosis should also include pseudo-syncope (hysteria)...

..The current study attempts to define the psychological features of patients with delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS)...

..analysis showed that age had a negative association with ESS score, while BMI, AHI, SDS, hypochondriasis (Hs), hysteria, psychopathic deviant, psychasthenia, schizophrenia and hypomania on the MMPI had a positive association with ESS ..

..RESULTS: The mean scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory hypochondriasis and hysteria scales were significantly greater for patients reporting reproduction of clinical pain than for patients not ..

..higher than the MMPI-2 normative sample on MMPI-2 scales of Validity (K), Hypochondriasis (Hs), Depression (D), Hysteria (Hy), Psychasthenia (Pt) and Schizophrenia (Sc)...

..8 elevations), with Depression (D) elevated for 32%, Hypochondriasis (Hs) for 30%, and Hysteria (Hy) for 21%...

..groups differed preoperatively on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Hypochondriasis (Hs), Hysteria (Hy), Psychopathic Deviate (Pd), Paranoia (Pa), Hypomania (Ma), and Social Introversion (Si) scales...

..Her mental status was estimated as normal in her intermenstrual period. She had been diagnosed as having hysteria and premenstrual syndrome. Her neurological findings on admission showed deep coma and hypotonic tetraparesis...

..The findings of the examination via MMPI show a high percentage of depression, hysteria, and hypochondria...

..Freud began to talk about the effects of the seduction in the clinical history of Katherine, (Studies on Hysteria, 1893 - 1895)...

Psychogenic disorders, also referred to as somatoform, conversion, somatization, hysteria, and medically unexplained symptoms, are among the most challenging disorders to diagnose and treat...

..We investigated the association between HPA activity and psychological profiles in mobbing, using a multidisciplinary approach...

..disorder), and depersonalization disorder, were once classified, along with conversion disorder, as forms of hysteria. The 1970s witnessed an "epidemic" of dissociative disorder, particularly DID, which may have reflected ..

..This investigation was designed to evaluate the predictive validity of the MMPI-2 with respect to outcome of RYGBP for morbid obesity...

..There were two groups: group 1 (n = 6), with a "conversion V" configuration (with elevation of hypochondria and hysteria scales, the depression scale being somewhat lower); and group 2 (n = 13) with elevation of depression and of ..

..A thick aqueous solution of the pericarp is used for the treatment of hemicrania, hysteria or epilepsy in folklore medicine...

..on a 19th century engraving declared by Charcot to depict St Vitus' dance or chorea germanorum, a form of mass hysteria. A search through the art history literature did not find chorea or St Vitus' dance as a subject of any of ..

..group with migraine had significantly higher scores on subtests of neuroticism (hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria) and schizophrenia...

..Several reports have indicated tendencies toward hypochondriasis, depression, and/or hysteria on the MMPI, and tendencies toward depression on the original BDI and CES-D...

..Humoral results were compared to psychological traits recorded at the time of the three blood samplings...

..of defense goes back to Freud's conceptualization of the "incompatible idea" put forward in Studies on Hysteria. In this view, consciousness itself, insofar as it gives rise to painful affect resulting from conflict with the ..

..headache patients reported higher MMPI scores on scales 1, Hypochondriasis (somatic concern), scale 3, Hysteria (denial) and scale 7, Psychasthenia (anxiety), but not on scale 2 (Depression), than migrainous patients...

..further show that common neurological diseases were leprosy, opium smoking, syphilitic dementia (GPI), paralysis, hysteria, neuralgia, epilepsy, mania, sciatica, meningitis and ataxia...

..contrast to North American studies, few of the Australian dentists used the Hand-Over-Mouth technique to control hysteria. Australian dentists appeared to rely more frequently than their North American colleagues on setting shorter ..

..greater than 70) on the MMPI clinical scales of schizophrenia, hypochondriasis, psychasthenia, depression and hysteria. For most scales, 86-88 mean score differences did not attain the 0...

..The paper ends with a clinical vignette which illustrates the role that language can play in hysteria. In hysteria the dissociation between body and psyche is accompanied by a dissociation inside language itself, ..

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..By contrast, the incompatible idea model propounded by Freud in Studies on Hysteria emphasizes awareness incompatible with the dictates of conscience, and hence is broader in scope and closer to ..

..compound muscle action potential of a weak muscle is an important clue to the diagnosis, when central (hysteria or pyramidal weakness) and neurogenic (acute neuro-axonopathy or conduction block) pathology can be ..

Pseudoneurological symptoms (i.e., conversion disorder), historically subsumed within the "hysteria" concept alongside phenomena such as psychogenic amnesia and multiple personality disorder, have been classified as somatoform ..

..Special emphasis is placed on conversion or hysteria, included in somatoform disorders. New findings in functional neuroimaging are analyzed...

..weakness due to structural lesions of the central nervous system (organic paralysis) from weakness caused by hysteria. Joseph F. F. Babinski worked in the shadow of his mentor, Jean M...

..Defining these determinant influences will help enhance placebo responses in clinical practice and control them in clinical trials. ..

..This proposal includes active and experienced mentoring, access to diverse resources, and a scientific environment suited specifically for the development of the PI as an independent physician scientist. ..

..It will also provide important information to both guide future clinical trials and identify barriers to effective treatment of depression in these patients. ..

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