Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Back in high school it was a commonly talked about condition with its probable causes discussed in hushed tones. During our early years of clinical practice, a shift wouldn't end without a case of a ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Dr Catherine Syengo Mutisya, a consultant psychiatrist, says hysteria is a psychiatric disorder in which a person ...

Before "that time of the month" became a catch-all excuse for a woman's mood swings, there was another, stranger uterus-adjacent reason for female distress: hysteria. This wasn't just a misogynistic ...

Before modern medicine, unexplained women’s behaviors and illnesses were diagnosed as hysteria. 1 Symptoms of hysteria included, but weren’t limited to, fever and physical pain, as well as behaviors ...

Other (often overlooked) conditions such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a neurologic/cardiac condition, may also be detected by a blood test and be connected to autoimmunity.

In her wide-ranging début memoir, “A Matter of Appearance,” Emily Wells recounts an early memory of watching a videotaped performance in a ballet recital. She danced well: her movements were quick and ...

In the autumn of 2011, 12 girls attending Le Roy Junior-Senior High School in upstate New York began to exhibit strange neurological symptoms, including tics, verbal outbursts, seizure-like activity ...