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mass hysteria

Known as: hysteria mass 
National Institutes of Health

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2016
2016
Public health, politics and the stigma of mass hysteria: lessons from an outbreak of unusual illness
In his biography of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cotton Mather writes that in… 
2010
2010
Mass hysteria among South African primary school learners in Kwa-Dukuza, KwaZulu-Natal
Abstract During August 2002, at a primary school in Kwa-Dukuza, KwaZulu-Natal, 27 children who had been well when they left their… 
2010
2010
The expulsion of evil and its return : An unconscious fantasy associated with a case of mass hysteria in adolescents
The formal study of hysteria started with psychoanalysis, which opened paths to studying the unconscious. However, we have found… 
2010
2010
The mirror neuron system may play a role in the pathogenesis of mass hysteria.
2009
2009
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
Review
2005
Review
2005
“Mystery illness” at Melbourne Airport: toxic poisoning or mass hysteria?
A government report concluded that the cause of the recent cluster of illness affecting 57 people at Melbourne Airport was a… 
2005
2005
An epidemic of mass hysteria in a village in West Bengal
This is a report of an outbreak of mass hysteria, attributed to an unknown infectious disease, in a small village near Baruipur… 
2004
2004
Episodic neurological dysfunction due to mass hysteria.
We describe 10 students from a small rural secondary school with episodes resembling seizures or syncopal attacks. Several… 
2003
2003
Mass hysteria and perceptions of the supernatural among adolescent girl students in Taiwan.
Introduction Persons with mass hysteria present in various ways, yet the condition itself exhibits common features: sudden onset… 
1992
1992
Casualties from a junior-senior high school during the Persian Gulf War: toxic poisoning or mass hysteria?
Mass hysteria is a bizarre and uncommon epidemic phenomenon. The usual victims are adolescent females and school settings are… 
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