HYSTERICAL AMBLYOPIA.

Disability Associated with So-called Hysterical Amblyopia

The visual evoked response in hysterical amblyopia.

Hysterical amblyopia is a term used to describe a syndrome in which reduction of visual acuity accompanied by contraction of the visual fields occurs in the absence of any organic lesion. This syndrome has been the subject of many reports (Eames, I 947; Yasuna, 1951; Schlaegel and Quilala, 1955; Krill, I967), but no conclusive diagnostic test has yet been established. Spiralling of the visual f...

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 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...