Diseases foreign accent syndrome
Suppose you wake up in the morning and start talking with a French accent, Chinese or Italian. It sounds funny but not funny to those who suffer, and usually is a sequel to a stroke or other serious brain damage before. Patients on this evil speak their mother tongue, involuntarily, as you would a stranger, without even ever heard the accent in question. It is believed that this happens when the brain damaged areas under the charge of language. This effect is inevitable for the person and, by its abrupt onset, often result in emotional problems related to the loss of personal identity and sense of belonging to a community.
[More information: 1 , 2 ] Ondine's Curse
Germanic legend tells of the terrible and exemplary punishment that a nymph (Ondine, goddess water), condemned her lover when she discovered he was cheating. Nothing less sentenced him to be responsible for continuing his breathing, ie the infidel could not forget even a minute that he must breathe, otherwise die from lack of oxygen. Ondine's Curse (or central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome, congenital), it means never sleeping, because when entering the dream will be lost and thus the conscious control of respiratory function. This rare disorder occurs when functionality is disrupted breathing centers located in the medulla oblongata
or neighboring structures.
[More information: 1 , 2 ] Capgras syndrome: The world's a stage
rare disorder in which the subject believes that people nearby have been replaced by doubles or behave as actors. The person deemed impostor has the same physical resemblance, but the patient believes his mind is not the original person. Sufferers do not feel an emotional connection between the image they see and remember the person who often agree to live with the "imposter" secretly knowing that they are not who they seem. In some cases not recognize themselves in the mirror and feel so disturbed to see the "
Doppelgänger" in the reflection that they have to remove all the mirrors in the house. Other cases are patients who are convinced that your pet, car, chair, etc.. have been changed by a replica accurate. It's like being in a parallel universe. Named after the French psychiatrist Jean Marie Joseph Capgras.
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Syndrome of Alice in Wonderland
micropsia
also called, is a disorder neurological condition that affects visual perception. Subjects perceive objects substantially much smaller than they actually are (as if viewed from the wrong end of a telescope.) For example, a pet like a dog, may appear to be size of a mouse, or a car like a toy car. You must be the name of the fictional character created by Lewis Carroll, Alice, who perceived things too small or large after eating a magic medicine. This syndrome is usually temporary and goings associated with migraines. Carroll suffered from them, so you may simply described their experience. Panic
the penis
Koro (Javanese term meaning "turtle head") is one of the many names for delirium is especially acute in Southeast Asia and southern China, where the patient suddenly becomes distressed and alarmed by the conviction that his penis is shrinking until it disappeared into the abdomen, and then kill you (as the head of a turtle that retracts inward). There are many Koreans who spend their lives stretching your penis to not die. It can be contagious, as the outbreak of 1967 in Singapore, where thousands of men came to think that their penis had been stolen. It is thought is just an extreme reaction to the natural shrinkage of the penis by cold or other causes.
[More information: 1 , 2, 3 , 4 ] The Jerusalem Syndrome
Sometimes the impact is so strong that Jerusalem because the tourists (people balanced before the visit) that some characters end up believing the Bible. Over two hundred cases a year do you have listed to this religious psychosis as "Jerusalem Syndrome" (although similar behavior has been observed in other sites of religious and historical as Mecca and Rome, Stendhal syndrome-). Observed since medieval times, its victims come to believe they are prophets (Samson, the Virgin Mary and King Solomon are preferred) and through the city enacting the Holy Scriptures or exhorting sinners to repentance. Behavior is usually harmless and goes to leave the city. The most important exception occurred in August 1969 when an Australian tourist Michael Rohan, set fire to the al-Aqsa mosque, believing it was "the emissary of God."
[More information: 1 ] Erotomania
Erotomanic syndrome is characterized by persistent delusional belief of being loved. The patient is usually female and believe receive messages and signals the love object, usually a man of higher socioeconomic status, and often married. The rejection by the object are interpreted as evidence of love for the patient (paradoxical behavior.) The subject may come to believe that the other person is communicating in secret with them by subtle methods such as body posture, arrangement of household objects and other seemingly innocuous acts. The object of the delusion usually has little or no contact with the erotomaniac, who often believe the other person is the one who started the fictional relationship. Sometimes the object of the illusion can not actually exist, although People usually tend to be displayed in the media, as singers, actors and politicians. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. was considered an illusion caused by erotomanic whereby the death of the president would cause actress Jodie Foster publicly declared her love for Hinckley. It is also known as "Clérambault Syndrome", after the psychiatrist in 1921 described several cases of this disease.
[More information: 1 ] Pica
binge eating is
inedible substances such as coal, soil, chalk, cigarette ash, glue, ice and even hair. Pica
affects people of all ages and is particularly common in pregnant women and children, particularly those in impoverished areas suffer from malnutrition. It also affects people mentally sick, which is especially dangerous because they try to eat even sharp objects (acufagia). The most serious risk of this disorder are gastrointestinal blockages or ruptures in the stomach.
Alien Hand Syndrome
Another disorder caused
by cerebral trauma, this strange disease causes the victim to lose control of one of his hands, which comes alive and can do anything from gesticulating to undo the buttons the other hand tries to buckle. This disease is also called Dr Strangelove Syndrome
, because of who played Peter Sellers in '
How I, flew to Moscow '. There the protagonist's mechanical hand alternated between attempts to strangle himself and throwing Nazi salutes. The syndrome patient can feel the touch in hand, but believe it is not part of your body and do not have control over your movements (even not aware what makes your hand until it calls your attention). The only solution is to keep busy, for example holding something - but better than the neck.
polydactylism
congenital deformity involving
born with more toes than normal (both feet as hands.) Although rare, the polydactylism is more common among communities given to marriage between relatives (inbreeding), as the Amish. Celebrities with this disease include
Anne Boleyn, the unfortunate second wife of King Henry VIII (which was rumored she was a witch because of her extra finger.) According to Guinness Book record is wielded
Indian brothers, and Triloki Tribhuwan Yadav, who boast of having 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot.
Riley-Day syndrome
not feel pain may seem a blessing but it becomes deadly to those who suffer from the disease that, among other symptoms, causes insensitivity to pain. The disease is caused by mutation of a gene is a rare condition in the general population but not in Ashkenazi Jews (descendants of Jews from Eastern Europe), with an estimated incidence of 1 case per 3,700 people. Evil makes its victims exceptionally prone to accidents because they simply do not realize the common messages of pain as wounds, burns compressions. Younger kids even forget expire, leading to loss of consciousness, since they contain the breath without feeling the discomfort that normal children would. The Riley-Day patients tend to die young - half before reaching the 30 - due to his injuries.
[More information: 1 ] Hypertrichosis
The so-called werewolf syndrome is a rare condition in which all the body excluding the palms of the feet and hands, is covered with lanugo hair long and silky. Medicine believes that it is a recessive gene that when mutated produces it. There are different types of hypertrichosis, and in some cases even the patient is born with a small hairy appendage called faun-tail or tail false. These cases have always called public attention enormously, especially as a circus. The most famous of all was the Russian Fedor
Jeftichew (known as 'Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy') who act in circuses around the world in the late nineteenth century.
[More information: 1 ] Proteus Syndrome
Proteus syndrome is a congenital disease that causes excessive growth and abnormal skin and bone atypical development. It was first described in 1979 by Dr. Michael Cohen and Hayden. Named after Proteus, the Greek god who changed their shape to avoid capture, because its phenotype is changing with age. It is an extremely rare disease, has been reported about 100 cases worldwide. This condition would have remained forgotten if not for the fact that
Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man was particularly severe case of this syndrome.
Cotard syndrome: Living Dead
The Jules Cotard syndrome or nihilistic delusion is a rare disorder in which the sufferer has the belief that he is dead does not exist, is rotting and has lost the internal organs. Some patients even come to perceive the smell of meat putrefaction or feel like the worms are eating. A famous case of Cotard syndrome describes a woman who was so convinced of his death he insisted on wearing a shroud and installed in a coffin. Asked to be buried and their families refused, remained in coffin until she died several weeks later.
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