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Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion. [1]
- List of mass panic cases
These events started in November 2022 and reports of...
- Psychogenic disease
Psychogenic disease. Classified as a "conversion disorder"...
- List of mass panic cases
These events started in November 2022 and reports of thousands of students being poisoned in ongoing assaults were claimed to have occurred in the following months. Mass psychogenic illness has been identified as a possible cause of the incidents.
Psychogenic disease. 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.
2 maj 2022 · Mass hysteria, also known as mass psychogenic illness, is an outbreak of unusual and uncharacteristic symptoms shared among a group of people. Learn about the types, signs, and possible causes of this phenomenon, and how it differs from collective panic.
23 sie 2021 · In several countries, currently we are facing a new type of mass sociogenic illness (MSI) (also known as ‘mass psychogenic illness’, MPI) that in contrast to all previously reported episodes of MSI is spread solely via social media and hence is not locally restricted.
There is increasing recognition that mass psychogenic illness (MPI) is underappreciated, under-reported and poses a significant health and social problem. 1, 2 The financial impact includes the cost of testing to eliminate environmental and organic causes, and the response by emergency services and public health specialists who expend precious ...
15 gru 2000 · Mass psychogenic illness is sometimes called mass hysteria or epidemic hysteria. Is mass psychogenic illness common? Mass psychogenic illness has been talked about and written about for...
