Disease relevance of Hysteria

• Several students were initially treated for epilepsy or syncope, but the temporal pattern of the attacks, the simultaneous resolution of the episodes during a school holiday, and the fact that 4 students subsequently had pseudoseizures confirmed by video-electroencephalography strongly suggest mass hysteria [1].
• The categories are temporal lobe epilepsy, delirium, drug toxicity, disease processes of the cerebrum, obscure pain, dyslexia, and hysteria [2].
• Focal dystonia (occupational cramp) masquerading as nerve entrapment or hysteria [3].
• Blunted plasma growth hormone responses to hypoglycemia were found in abnormal hypomania scale, and augmented responses of plasma cortisol in abnormal hysteria or schizophrenia scales [4].
• A thick aqueous solution of the pericarp is used for the treatment of hemicrania, hysteria or epilepsy in folklore medicine [5].

Psychiatry related information on Hysteria

• Misdiagnosis as night terrors, nightmares, hysteria, or paroxysmal nocturnal dystonia was common, and the inheritance pattern was often not appreciated [6].
• The responses of RA patients and normal subjects to most other statements in the MMPI Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales were quite similar [7].
• Psychiatric manifestations include hysteria, anxiety, depression, phobias, psychosis, organic disorders, agitation, delirium, and altered consciousness ranging from somnolence to coma [8].
• The effects of chronic sulpiride therapy on growth hormone (GH) secretion were studied in 11 mentally disturbed children, aged 5 to 13 years, five with personality disorders, three with childhood psychoses, one with hysteria, one with anxiety reactions, and one with neurosis [9].
• Moreover, sex does not appear to modify the ABO blood type distribution in our patients with obsessive-compulsive neurosis, phobic neurosis or hysteria [10].

High impact information on Hysteria

• Hysteria, as classically defined (before Freud), is a chronic polysymptomatic illness chiefly affecting women [11].
• Laser pointers: the facts, media hype, and hysteria [12].
• Elevated MMPI scores for hypochondriasis, depression, and hysteria in patients with rheumatoid arthritis reflect disease rather than psychological status [7].
• Their creatine phosphokinase level was negatively correlated with hysteria and psychopathic deviance [13].
• The authors present a case of neuro-ophthalmic systemic lupus erythematosus in which an initial diagnosis of "hysteria" was made [14].

Chemical compound and disease context of Hysteria

• Lastly, Edward Mellanby's continued work on the rachitic effect of cereals led to the spin-off finding that wheat flour improved with nitrogen chloride, although nontoxic to rats, was responsible for the problem of canine hysteria in dogs that had developed in the 1930s and 1940s [15].
• The prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome: anxiety or hysteria [16]?
• Metoserpate Hydrochloride for the treatment of hysteria in replacement pullets [17].
• Alleviation of hysteria in laying hens with dietary tryptophan [18].
• Malathion-induced epidemic hysteria in an elementary school [19].

Biological context of Hysteria

• The multifactorial model of disease transmission: III. Familial relationship between sociopathy and hysteria (Briquet's syndrome) [20].

Gene context of Hysteria

• Hysteria and ABO blood types [21].
• Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis or hysteria [22]?
• This otherwise healthy young man, without a history of generalized epilepsy or hysteria, experienced multiple spells during which he suddenly became unaware of his surroundings, rambled throughout Paris and its outskirts, and had complex interactions with other people [23].
• Epilepsy and hysteria [24].
• The hypochondriasis (1), depression (2), and hysteria (3) scales are referred to as the "neurotic triad," and profile patterns such as these indicate that these subjects may manifest their psychologic distress as physical symptoms [25].

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