Koro

Known as: Koro (Disease), koro disease

A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the…

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2011

This paper discusses the relationship between learning the Qur'an by heart and academic achievement, language learning and…

2010

The objectives of the research were to find out: (1) the contents of the isoflavone compounds of daidzein,genistein, glisitein…

2008

The present study involves the examination of explanation of Koro illness as perceived by the patients during a Koro epidemic in…

1986

: In koro, the sensation of penile retraction is coupled with an intense fear that death will occur once the retraction is…

1986

In koro, the sensation of penile retraction is coupled with an intense fear that death will occur once the retraction is complete…

1983

Koro is an acute anxiety characterised by the patient’s fear that his penis is shrinking and will disappear into the abdomen…

1982

The term 'Koro' refers to an unfamiliar state of acute anxiety with partial depersonalization leading to the conviction of penile…

1981

Koro is an acute anxiety reaction characterized by the patient 's desperate fear that his penis is shrinking and may disappear…

1977

Koro is a syndrome consisting of fears that the male organ is withdrawing into the abdominal cavity and ultimately this will lead…

1977

Koro, a psychogenic anxiety syndrome interfering with genital body image and sexual functioning, has hitherto been described as…