This time, a neurologist dug deeper. “He didn’t dismiss me,” Dodd said. “He took the time to listen and investigate.” Dodd ...

Today, most scholars argue that the blanket disease hysteria was always a figment of doctors' imaginations.As outright ...

“He took the time to listen and investigate.” Dodd has functional neurological disorder (FND): a modern “hysteria” at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram. FND can manifest as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rachael Dodd sat at her desk, staring at her computer screen as random letters in the body of an email vanished from sight.

The more people talked of the disorder, the more stressful the environment became. "Eventually when a mass hysteria happens," Taberski said, "the mass hysteria becomes the stress or the trauma." ...

Charcot took an interest in the malady then called hysteria. It seemed to be a mental disorder with physical manifestations, of immediate interest to a neurologist. He believed that hysteria was ...