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Integrating Hysteria into the Neurological Examination
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Integrating Hysteria into the Neurological Examination
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What is hysterical and what is neurological?
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Hysteria Historically Has Been Confusing
What is the Product of Centuries of Neurologic and Psychiatric Observations?
The Evolution of the "Hysterical Concept"
The Evolution of the "Hysterical Concept", cont'd.
Term "Hysteria"
Poul Bjerre- 1920
Any disorder can have potential hysterical manifestations
Should We Keep the Term "Hysteria"?
Where Is the Term Derived From?
Kahun Papyrus
Ebers Papyrus
Hippocrates
Galen
Celsus: Treatment Recommendations
Middle Ages 500 A.D.-1500 A.D.
St. Augustine
The Witches Hammer
Pickers
Statutory crime- 1541
16th Century- Pare
Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
Mesmerism
1700's- Benjamin Rush
Thomas Sydenham- 1681
Jean-Martin Charcot
James Braid- Hypnosis
Treatments- Surgery for Hysteria?
Silas Weir Mitchell
Important Additions to the Neurological Exam in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Sensory Loss
Charcot- Ovarian Hyperesthesia
Charcot- Tuesday Lessons
Hemianaesthesia Babinski
Babinski- Examination of the Sensory System
Babinski- Sensory Exam
Babinski Proves Suggestion in the Sensory Exam
Babinski Coins a New Term: Pithiatism
1963 (NEJM)
Hemisensory Loss: Bowlus and Currier Sign
Hand position
Test
Caveats to the Bowlus-Currier Test
Hemiplegia: Babinski Trunk-Thigh Test
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Babinski Separates Hysterical Hemiplegia from Organic
Charles Gilbert Chaddock (1861-1936)
Chaddock's Sign
Hoover
Hemiplegia: Hoover Sign
Hemiplegia: Hoover Sign
Astasia-Abasia: Bloq Descriptions
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Astasia-Abasia: Bloq Descriptions
Astasia-Abasia: Bloq Descriptions
Astasia-Abasia: Bloq Descriptions
Conclusions on Integrating Hysteria in the Exam:
Author: Michael Okun M.D.
Contact: Dr. Michael Okun / msokun@pol.net
Version: Produced by the Office of Medical Informatics
Copyright: 2003 by the University of Florida
Location: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/other/histmed/okun3/index.html
Created: January 30, 2003
Modified: January 31, 2003