Brain problem

The cause of hysteria disease so far is still an unsolvable problem of medicine

With the advancement of medicine today, you must think that there is no disease that cannot find the cause. Not sure! One of the diseases is quite common but still a secret and therefore no suitable treatment is hysteria (hysteria).

The disease is vague

Hysteria has been around 4,000 years ago, but in the past 50 years, the name hysteria has been a little bit mentioned. Brain science has not paid much attention to this disease. During the 20th century, the search for hysteria disease's mental facility was ignored. Recently, the improvement in active brain imaging has changed this situation. Scientists began to monitor changes in brain activity. Although the mechanisms of the brain behind hysteria disease symptoms are still not fully understood, new studies have begun to focus back on the body, by recognizing the physical evidence of one of the This number of the most difficult, controversial and elusive diseases.

Hysteria is a neurological disease but causes many physical symptoms, so it is difficult to detect and treat properly.

Although there was a period of few appearances, hysteria never disappeared. But it changed its name. In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association officially changed the name of hysteria disease to "conversion disorder" (a transition from mental illness to physical illness). Despite changing names, people still suffer from diseases, symptoms of the disease remain the same and medicine has not explained the cause.

Scientists have not agreed on how to classify metabolic disorders, and not all doctors agree on diagnostic criteria. The epidemiology industry is vague, it is only possible to give a common statistic: transformational form accounts for 1 to 4% of all diseases in Western hospitals. In addition, patients with mixed symptoms affect self-conscious senses or motor functions, such as blindness, paralysis or seizures.

Neurological causes, physical symptoms

In the 17th century, hysteria was considered the second most common disease, after fever. By the 19th century, two French neuroscientists Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and Pierre Janet (1859-1947) laid the foundation for scientific approaches to the disease. Later, the student of Charcot - a young neurologist named Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) fundamentally changed that foundation, and as some say, he was the one who popularized hysteria. Freud's modifications were to explain why hysteria patients fainted and had a seizure. He coined the term " conversion " to describe the mechanism by which unconscious and unresolved conflicts can be transformed into physical symptoms. This view of Freud has not been dismissed so far.

From 4,000 years ago, this disease has been described on the reliefs of ancient Greece

For current neuroscientists, there is no division between physical and mental brains. Techniques allow to see breakdowns in brain function, allowing a physical map of what may be happening in the minds of modern hysteria sufferers. Many questions have yet to be answered, but the results have begun to show how the emotional structures in the brain can regulate the function of a normal senses and motor nerves.

Over the past decade, a series of brain imaging studies have been performed on patients suffering from paralysis due to hysteria. These patients have healthy nerves and muscles. Their problem is not the structure, but the function: something is clearly broken in places that specialize in managing movement and will to move.

No instability is . unstable

Two neuroscientists at Cardiff University (England) are Peter W. Halligan and John C. Marshall and colleagues analyzed the brain function of a woman who was paralyzed on the left side. When trying to move the paralyzed leg, her primary motor cortex k

An image taken with a PET machine shows the mental activity of a normal brain (upper row) and an Alzheimer's brain.

The hip is activated as its function, instead, the cortex in the forehead - the right eye drive and the right frontal belt, some parts of the brain related to action and emotions, are activated.

That explains why these emotional areas of the brain are responsible for preventing movement on the paralyzed leg of a woman. This patient wanted to move his legs, but that willpower triggered the forehead-eye area and activated the front belt to cancel the foot movement. The woman wants to move her legs, but her legs do not move.

Subsequent studies have strengthened the notion that emotional-related parts of the brain can be triggered incorrectly in patients with metabolic disorders and can prevent normal nerve functions. in charge of movement, feeling and vision. Brain-imaging studies can be a useful diagnostic tool.

But what science agrees with is not related to what is known about hysteria, but how much is unknown about the disease. Transgender disorders are still difficult to diagnose. If there is nothing wrong with you, chances are you have instability!

SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computerised Tomography) method and PET (Positron Emission Tomography - positron emitting X-ray), now allows scientists to monitor changes in brain activity.(Photo: uni-mainz)