A neurological bias in the history of hysteria: from the womb to the nervous system and Charcot

Hysteria conceptions, from ancient Egypt until the 19th century Parisian hospital based studies, are presented from gynaecological and demonological theories to neurological ones. The hysteria protean behavioral disorders based on nervous origin was proposed at the beginning, mainly in Great Britain...

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Main Authors: Marleide da Mota Gomes, Eliasz Engelhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2014-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2014001200972&lng=en&tlng=en