Dr Catherine Syengo Mutisya, a consultant psychiatrist, says hysteria is a psychiatric disorder in which a person exhibits physical symptoms with a psychological origin. Instead of verbalising ...

Mass hysteria – otherwise known as epidemic hysteria, psychogenic epidemic, or mass psychogenic illness – is characterized by the spread of symptoms through a population, where there is no infectious ...

A new podcast explores a mysterious case of teens developing Tourette syndrome–like tics and other cases of suspected mass ...

Women may struggle to get diagnoses for health problems, including sleep apnea and heart conditions, early enough if their ...

When she recounted her ailments - shortness of breath, dizziness, a crushing feeling in her chest, a choking in her throat - Freud was convinced that she suffered from hysteria. Her symptoms first ...

It's this medical history of hysteria which inspired the title of author Katerina Bryant's memoir. "So I started writing the book as I was experiencing symptoms both that I couldn't understand ...

All may have experienced mass psychogenic events—better known as hysteria. All also appear ... which takes us on a medical mystery tour of their symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments.

Fast-forward to today, when hysteria is no longer a go-to label ... thyroid issues and certain heart conditions - early enough if their symptoms are misattributed to anxiety.