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Emirates Flight 203 (September 2018) – 106 of 521 passengers on a 14-hour flight from Dubai to New York reported symptoms including coughing, sneezing, fever, or vomiting. The pilot notified airport ground staff, and personnel from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met and quarantined the plane in New York and evaluated ...
It is an example of an argument from ignorance, with ignorance here intended to mean "an absence of contrary evidence". It precludes the notion that an organic factor could have been overlooked ( i.e. that there may have been insufficient investigation), or the possibility that the answer may currently be unknown but known at a future point in ...
Classified as a "conversion disorder" by the DSM-IV, a psychogenic disease is a condition in which mental stressors cause physical symptoms matching other disorders. The manifestation of physical symptoms without biologically identifiable cause results from disruptions in normal brain function due to psychological stress.
This is sometimes called tic cough, somatic cough syndrome and previously psychogenic cough, but without clinical justification. [1] Different terms and conditions involving this form of chronic cough were ill-defined and not well distinguished. [4] Coughing may develop in children or adults after a cold or other airway irritant. [5]
Dissociative fugue (/ f juː ɡ / FYOOG), previously referred to as a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, [1] is a rare psychiatric condition characterized by reversible amnesia regarding one’s identity, often accompanied by unexpected travel or wandering.
Psychogenic pain is physical pain that is caused, increased, or prolonged by mental, emotional, or behavioral factors, without evidence of physical injury or illness. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Headache, back pain, or stomach pain are some of the most common types of psychogenic pain. [ 5 ]
Frisson (UK: / ˈ f r iː s ɒ n / FREE-son, US: / f r iː ˈ s oʊ n / free-SOHN [1] [2] French:; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals [3]) that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise ...
Because psychogenic amnesia is defined by its lack of physical damage to the brain, [16] treatment by physical methods is difficult. [7] Nonetheless, distinguishing between organic and dissociative memory loss has been described as an essential first-step in effective treatments. [1]