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- Hysteria, once known as a "woman's illness," has evolved from medieval views of demonic possession to being recognized as a functional neurological disorder.
- Charcot and Richer documented the semiological aspects of hysteria in 1887, noting similarities to psychogenic nonepileptic seizures that mimic grand mal seizures.
- This text aims to explore the historical evolution of hysteria's representation, from Charcot’s iconographic works to modern-day video portrayals in epilepsy monitoring units and on patients' smartphones.
Article Abstract
Hysteria, previously also known as the disease of the womb, has moved from being a woman's illness through the medieval times' stigma of demonic possession, to the modern concept of a functional neurological disorder. Interestingly to the present assay, Charcot (1825-1893) and Richer (1849-1933) described, in their 1887 work , by means of iconography, semiological aspects of the so-called , which resembles features of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures emulating grand mal epileptic seizures. The aim of the present assay is to describe how those charcoal iconographic representations evolved through history and are nowadays portrayed in videos recorded at epilepsy monitoring units and patients' cell phones.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11500281 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1789229 | DOI Listing |
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