Conversion Disorder

Is Social Media Causing The Mystery Illness?

Posted 02.08.2012

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The search for answers continues in the LeRoy High School mystery illness case, and one expert's new hypothesis proposes that symptoms may be spreadin...

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Mysterious Illness at Le Roy School: Understanding Conversion Disorders

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 04.04.2012

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Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Recently, the media has burst with stories about 15 teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y., where their tic-like symptoms and uncontrolled utterances have baffled local residents, school officials and families. The NYS Department of Health has been on the scene.

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Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

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Scott Mendelson, M.D.

For an episode of mass hysteria to begin, all that is necessary is troubled times in the culture, a shared set of beliefs and a final, fearful, anxiety-provoking trigger to set the phenomenon into motion.

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Mystery Outbreak Could Bring On Zombie Invasion

TruTV.com | Posted 03.31.2012

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As many as 16 students in LeRoy, New York have been stricken with a mysterious illness characterized by facial tics and Tourettes-like outbursts. D...

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Mystery Illness Spreads To 15 Students At LeRoy High School

Posted 03.27.2012

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The mystery illness that hit 12 girls at LeRoy High School in upstate New York -- which was recently diagnosed by a local doctor as conversion disorde...

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Mystery Illness: Why Did 12 Teen Girls Suddenly Become Sick?

Posted 01.18.2012

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At LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in upstate New York, 12 female students suddenly fell ill with symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome, such as body tics a...

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