Delirium of female foot syndrome

Scientists have found the cause of excessive foot fetish syndrome and sometimes lead to unusual actions.

A person who claims to be a 'foot-wringer' has been arrested in the United States after a series of attacks on women in a very odd way. Reuters reported that Michael Robert Wyatt, 50, approached the weak in stores, uttering praise for their feet before demanding . to suck on his toes. It is worth noting that Wyatt had previously been imprisoned for a similar crime. In the last attack, Wyatt, the Arkansas, also pretended to be a nail technician to be touched and . sucked the foot of a victim in the clothing store.

Foot syndrome is more popular than people think - (Photo: Realsimple)

Although the actual criminal cases appear quite rare, the woman's fury , as the name suggests, is surprisingly popular. Studies of the prevalence of body hypersensitivity syndrome (excluding genital organs) show that the feet and accessories associated with this part are the most infatuated by 'believers' . Almost half of the people focus on the opposite sex, and nearly two-thirds worship objects related to feet such as shoes and socks.

Neurosurgeon and Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud has hypothesized that humans worship their feet because they are shaped like the genitals. However, neuroscientist Vilanayar Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, gave another theory based on more solid scientific studies of Freud's theory.

Ramachandran said he had discovered the secret behind a woman's foot delusion while studying brain problems that led to the illusion of foot syndrome. This is the situation where only handicapped people feel as if their lost legs still stick on their bodies, and they can still move them. The expert found that the syndrome occurred when a person's 'body image map' failed to erase the part of the interaction with the lost limb. The body image map is the map drawn by the brain, whereby different parts of the body are linked and controlled by the nerve centers of the brain.

In the case of some patients with illusions about their feet, Mr. Ramachandran found that their brains not only did not erase the image of their lost legs, but also randomly felt that their legs became extremely attractive. Patients with delusions of legs feel compelled to fondle and caress the lost body part.

Before Ramachandran began his study of the syndrome of pedicular leg illusions, previous reports have noted that the brain area is linked to the genitalia and the legs are close to each other. However, no one other than Mr. Ramachandran linked these events to show that the worshiper of the feet is due to problems with the brain, causing the two areas to control their legs and external genitalia. overlap.