Mass Hysteria

Both Sides: Watch the Track, Not the Horse Race: Gas, Health, Afghanistan

HuffPost Radio | Posted 03.18.2012

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2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgReagan and Matalin skip who's up-down in the GOP contest to debate spurting gas prices, the constitutionality of "Obamacare" and our exit strategy from Afghanistan post- massacre. Then: do presidential speeches ever matter, Mr. Reagan?

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Conversion Disorder and Mass Hysteria

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Mass Hysteria, Sigmund Freud, Conversion Disorder, Leroy New York, Koro, Mental Health, Healthy Living News
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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Is Hysteria Really Back?

| Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Hysteria, Tourette Syndrome, Mass Hysteria, Cheerleader Hysteria, Cheerleaders Upstate New York Hysteria, Women News

By Ruth Graham (Click here for original article.) Last August, 16-year-old Lori Brownell passed out while head-banging at a concert. A month later...

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Mystery Illness Spreads To 15 Students At LeRoy High School

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, Mass Hysteria, Mystery Illness, 12 Girls Mystery Illness, Leroy-High-School, Conversion-Disorder, Leroy-High-School-Illness, High School News

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

Read More: Hysteria, Medical-Mysteries, Video, Mass Hysteria, LeRoy Junior-Senior High School, High School News, Conversion-Disorder, High School News

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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The Future of American Mass Hysteria

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Singapore, American Culture, Mass Hysteria, Home News
Scott Mendelson, M.D.

All that is necessary to trigger mass hysteria, whether in Singapore or Terre Haute, Indiana, is a deeply held, shared belief; anxiety and turmoil in society; and a frightening event to set off the madness.

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Why Oprah's Favorite Things Show Makes Me Sad

Erica Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tory Burch, Style News, Television, Oprah Winfrey, Mass Hysteria, Designers, Psychology, Oprah's Favorite Things, Style News
Erica Kennedy

I went to see Oprah when she taped her show in Central Park last year because my almost mother-in-law is a tremendous Oprah fan and I knew it was her ...

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Healing America (and What One Man Is Doing)

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Delmark Goldfarb, Twitter, Mass Hysteria, Corporate America, Balance the Bucks Concert, Health Care Reform, Portland Oregon, Neil Young, James Morgan, Corporate Greed, Blues, Barack Obama, Politics News
Beth Arnold

A man I've come to know a bit is a blues musician named Delmark Goldfarb from Portland, Oregon. He's producing a concert titled "Balance the Bucks", a rally against greed.

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