Hysteria

Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not apparently due to physical illness. This diagnosis is not used in contemporary practice.

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Networked: 144 relevant articles (6 outcomes, 8 trials/studies)

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Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Mental Disorders (Mental Disorder)
2.	Seizures (Seizure)
3.	Fever (Fevers)
4.	Hypochondriasis
5.	Respiratory Sounds (Crackle)

Experts

1.	Bogousslavsky, Julien: 2 articles (01/2014 - 01/2009)
2.	Parent, André: 2 articles (01/2011 - 08/2002)
3.	Parent, Martin: 2 articles (01/2011 - 08/2002)
4.	Pardo, Seth T: 1 article (02/2015)
5.	Herman, Levi I: 1 article (02/2015)
6.	Babcock, Julia C: 1 article (02/2015)
7.	Keo-Meier, Colton L: 1 article (02/2015)
8.	Sharp, Carla: 1 article (02/2015)
9.	Reisner, Sari L: 1 article (02/2015)
10.	Shafighi, Maziar: 1 article (12/2014)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Hysteria:

1.	nitrogen chloride (nitrogen trichloride)IBA 11/01/1991 - "Lastly, Edward Mellanby's continued work on the rachitic effect of cereals led to the spin-off finding that wheat flour improved with nitrogen chloride, although nontoxic to rats, was responsible for the problem of canine hysteria in dogs that had developed in the 1930s and 1940s. " 08/23/1947 - "Nitrogen trichloride and canine hysteria." 08/23/1947 - "Further observations on the production of canine hysteria by flour treated with nitrogen trichloride (agene process)."
2.	ParaldehydeIBA 03/01/2012 - "At the Maudsley Hospital in London in 1940 barbiturate abreaction was advocated for quick relief from severe anxiety and hysteria, using i.v. anaesthetics: Somnifaine, paraldehyde, Sodium Amytal. "
3.	Amobarbital (Amsal)IBA 03/01/2012 - "At the Maudsley Hospital in London in 1940 barbiturate abreaction was advocated for quick relief from severe anxiety and hysteria, using i.v. anaesthetics: Somnifaine, paraldehyde, Sodium Amytal. "
4.	barbituric acid (barbiturate)IBA 03/01/2012 - "At the Maudsley Hospital in London in 1940 barbiturate abreaction was advocated for quick relief from severe anxiety and hysteria, using i.v. anaesthetics: Somnifaine, paraldehyde, Sodium Amytal. "
5.	metoserpateIBA 10/01/1977 - "Fifteen flocks of replacement pullets affected with hysteria were treated with metoserpate hydrochloride via the drinking water after water was withheld for an adequate period. " 10/01/1977 - "Metoserpate Hydrochloride for the treatment of hysteria in replacement pullets." 10/01/1977 - "The dose was 4 mg/kg body weight (BW) on day 1, and 2 mg/kg BW on days 5 and 9. Metoserpate hydrochloride proved effective and safe for treating clinical cases of hysteria in replacement pullets."
6.	BenzodiazepinesIBA 08/01/1990 - "The prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome: anxiety or hysteria?" 08/01/1990 - "In an attempt to establish whether prolonged withdrawal symptoms after stopping intake of benzodiazepines is caused by return of anxiety, hysteria, abnormal illness behaviour or the dependence process itself producing perhaps a prolonged neurotransmitter imbalance, a group of such patients suffering prolonged withdrawal symptoms (PWS) was compared on a range of psychophysiological measures with matched groups of anxious and conversion hysteria patients and normal controls. " 10/01/1982 - "A total of 29 patients with anxiety or anxiety/hysteria, participated in a double-blind, cross-over trial of two benzodiazepine anxiolytics, diazepam and potassium clorazepate. "
7.	tebufenozide (Mimic)IBA 05/09/2000 - "Charcot's later failures in the study of hysteria can be viewed as attempts to mimic physiologic experiments in the manner of Brown-Séquard's scientific methods." 01/01/1985 - "The term pseudodementia is applied to the range of functional psychiatric conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and hysteria that may mimic organic dementia, but are essentially reversible on treatment. "
8.	Troleandomycin (TAO)FDA Link 01/01/1990 - "In Study 2, neither obsessiveness nor hysteria scores were related to TAS, TAO or AGG scores in subjects of either sex. "
9.	Anti-Anxiety Agents (Anxiolytics)IBA 10/01/1982 - "A total of 29 patients with anxiety or anxiety/hysteria, participated in a double-blind, cross-over trial of two benzodiazepine anxiolytics, diazepam and potassium clorazepate. "
10.	PotassiumIBA 10/01/1982 - "A total of 29 patients with anxiety or anxiety/hysteria, participated in a double-blind, cross-over trial of two benzodiazepine anxiolytics, diazepam and potassium clorazepate. "

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Traditional Medicine (Folk Remedies) 01/01/2013 - "The present study deals with standardization of an in-house standard preparation and three marketed samples of Brahmi vati, which is a traditional medicine known to be effective in mental disorders, convulsions, weak memory, high fever and hysteria. "
2.	Aftercare (After-Treatment) 02/01/1985 - "Results indicated that after treatment, patients without litigation pending obtained significantly greater reductions on the Hypochondriasis and Hysteria scales of the MMPI and achieved relatively greater improvements on two behavior measures. " 09/01/1999 - "After treatment, the scores on subtests of hysteria, psychasthenia, and schizophrenia were remarkably lower (P < .05); the MMPI profile of the posttreatment group was within the reference range, but the scores of the neurotic scales were still higher than those of the healthy control group (P < .01). "
3.	Tracheostomy 05/01/1996 - "The paper provides data which may help to make differential diagnosis between true laryngeal stenosis treated by tracheostomy and intermittent functional stridor in hysteria treated psychotherapeutically."
4.	Hypnosis (Mesmerism) 03/01/2011 - "Nevertheless, while the recent literature provides some compelling leads into the understanding of these phenomena, the field still lacks well controlled systematically designed studies to give a clear insight into the neurocognitive processes underlying dissociation in both hysteria and hypnosis. " 01/01/2014 - "In order to understand this particular quarrel, this chapter examines the history of mesmerism, hysteria, hypnosis, and fin-de-siècle neurology represented by both the Nancy and Salpêtrière schools." 06/01/2013 - "In this work we show how trances and spiritual possession were studied by Franz Anton Mesmer and his followers when developing the concept of magnetism; by James Braid during the creation of his theory of hypnosis; and by Jean Martin Charcot, which marked the entry of hysteria into nosological classification. " 10/01/2012 - "The concept of dissociation was developed in the late 19th century by Pierre Janet for conditions of "double consciousness" in hypnosis, hysteria, spirit possession and mediumship. " 05/01/2012 - "In France, important advances were once again initiated in Paris by Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and some of his pupils who renewed the concept of hysteria and the use of hypnosis. "
5.	Witchcraft (Sorceries) 01/01/2000 - "The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 have been studied by many historians looking for the complex social, political, and psychological determinants behind the community-wide hysteria that led to a travesty of justice and the deaths of 20 innocent Puritans. " 06/01/1994 - "Throughout the history of medicine from the early Greeks up to the end of the nineteenth century, the definition and diagnosis of hysteria had a function similar to that found in the persecution of witchcraft: it sought to eradicate the outbursts of nonconforming and emotionally threatening conduct of women. " 01/01/1984 - "He issued medical opinions about magic, witchcraft, the bubonic plague, hysteria, unconscious fits, sleepwalking, smoking, the "King's Evil", and many other medico-psychological symptoms and treatments which caught his imagination. "