Hysteria, possession states and pseudoseizures

Pseudoseizures and asthma.

BACKGROUND Sexual abuse and head injury are important risk factors of pseudoseizures, reported in about a third of patients. Clinical experience suggests that asthma is another possible risk factor. OBJECTIVES To determine the relative prevalence of asthma in patients with pseudoseizures. METHODS A retrospective record review was undertaken of reported asthma in 102 patients with pseudoseiz...

Vestibulogenic ‘pseudoseizures’

s analysed scores for eight patients tested identically following amytal (30-40 mg) injected directly into a posterior cerebral artery (PCA), to the inactivate hippocampus without causing aphasia. Mean scores (maximum = 8) by dominance/pathology were: for ISA normal D = 6.4 ND = 4.2, pathological D = 35 ND = 21; for PCA, normal D = 7.5 ND = 7.7, pathological D = 5.0 ND = 2.0. On ISA normal D vs...

Hysteria, belief, and magic.

(a) A courageous OP refers a boy aged eight who has †̃¿ gone off his legs' that morning. The OP says he knows it is hysterical but that he cannot stop it. The boy is brought by car. A kind psychiatrist negotiates through the window the need for the boy to mount the steps to come and talk. The boy comes. He talks about how his estranged father had promised first a trip to the cup final and then...

Suggestibility and Hysteria.

Crime , Hysteria and Belle

Hysteria and hypnotism became a favorite topic of studies in the fin de siècle neurology that emerged from the school organized at La Salpêtrière by Jean-Martin Charcot, where he had arrived in 1861. Georges Gilles de la Tourette started working with Charcot in 1884 and probably remained his most faithful student, even after his mentor’s death in 1893. This collaboration was particularly intens...