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Le Roy, New York, hit the media, which labeled this rash of symptoms as a “mystery illness.” Of course, doctors were described as “baffled” (Almasy and Spellman 2012). Over a short period of time the teens started to exhibit invol-untary movements and vocalizations described as tics, similar to the symp-toms of Tourette syndrome.
24 Αυγ 2019 · Over the past couple of years, I had written a few articles about a mystery neurological ailment that had struck about 20 teenagers, most of whom were students in high school at that time in LeRoy, NY, a small town about 30 minutes from the city of Rochester.
Teenage schoolgirls in Le Roy, New York, captured the attention of the U.S. public in 2011 and 2012 when they developed acute motor and vocal tics.
1 Νοε 2015 · Dramatic images of the girls’ involuntary movements were briefly seen on national news and social media before clinical neurologists diagnosed the girls with “mass psychogenic illness” and...
23 Φεβ 2015 · A Look at Mass Pscychogenic Illness. By Annette Pinder. Western New York was in the spotlight a several months ago as physicians, parents, educators, government agencies and the media speculated on why several teens in Leroy were experiencing uncontrollable tics.
began in 2011, a “mysterious illness” among teenage girls at the high school in Le Roy, New York (Figure 1) (Asz-talos 2011). Six cases were reported, then twelve, then fif-teen and counting as the story captured attention across the United States and beyond (“Doctors baffled” 2012).
21 Αυγ 2024 · The New York State Department enlisted a doctor to investigate the Tourette’s-like symptoms spreading through the school, who told parents their children were suffering from “conversion disorder”, or “mass psychogenic illness”: in other words, this was an instance of mass hysteria.
