Mass psychogenic illness and the social network: Is it changing the pattern of outbreaks?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Supplement

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 509-512

  Bartholomew, Robert E ^a   Wessely, Simon ^b   Rubin, G James ^b  

^a Botany College   (New Zealand)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIC SUBSTANCE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; CONFLICT; CONVERSION DISORDER; CONVULSION; DIZZINESS; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TWITCH; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEIZURE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STRESS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TREMOR; CRYING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FAINTNESS; HYPERVENTILATION; HYSTERIA; INTERNET; MASS PSYCHOGENIC ILLNESS; PATHOLOGICAL LAUGHTER; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; ADOLESCENT; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROWDING; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHEMICAL HAZARD RELEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS BEHAVIOR; NEW YORK; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872075997     PISSN: 02675331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2012.120053     Document Type: Article

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