Dan Taberski, creator of the podcast "Hysterical," explains how he became interested in a condition that causes physical ...

The condition was first reported in 2016 when US diplomatic staff stationed at the embassy in Cuba's capital Havana reported ...

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

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 ...

Others think it's the result of an immune system gone haywire. The authorities' official diagnosis—mass psychogenic illness—doesn't sit well with many of the patients or their families.

You may consider talking to a mental health specialist if you have: Stress may bring on a fever in some cases, though research is mixed. A psychogenic fever, unlike a regular fever, isn't the ...

Written by experts in neurology, psychiatry, psychology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology and genetics, this book covers psychogenic movement disorders and other conversion disorders from all of the most ...

Several theories have been put forward to explain the cause of the illness, including the possibility of a hostile state using a type of directed energy weapon involving soundwaves or the mysterious ...