APROPOS OF HYSTERICAL HEMIPLEGIA

Hysterical paraplegia.

Between 1944 and 1984 20 patients were admitted to a spinal injuries centre with a diagnosis of traumatic paraplegia. They subsequently walked out and the diagnosis was revised to hysterical paraplegia. A further 23 patients with incomplete traumatic injuries, who also walked from the centre, have been compared with them as controls. The features that enabled a diagnosis of hysterical paraplegi...

Hysterical Belch

Hysterical Disorders of Warfare

This is a most interesting and remarkable book, both as regards the conception of hysteria and the methods of treatment employed with such success. We cannot help thinking that the personality of the author, his marvellous determination, tact, and good humour, as shown in these pages, is not the least striking of the series of human pictures here detailed. He had studied mental disease in asylu...

Hysterical Psychosis

Clinical features of 88 patients diagnosed as having hysterical psychosis are analysed and compared with those of an equal number of catatoaic schizophrenics and conversion reaction. Hysterical psychosis is characterised by acute onset. often following the occurence of an emotionally disturbing event, absence of any characteristic thought disturbance, and emotio.ial volatility. Prognosis is goo...

Neural correlates of hysterical blindness.

The neural mechanisms underlying conversion disorders such as hysterical blindness are at present unknown. Typically, patients are diagnosed through exclusion of neurological disease and the absence of pathologic neurophysiological diagnostic findings. Here, we investigate the neural basis of this disorder by combining electrophysiological (event-related potentials) and hemodynamic measures (fu...