With many enjoying the thrill of Halloween ghost stories, medical textbooks have their own collection of rare conditions that can seem almost otherworldly.
This October 31, many around the world are enjoying the thrill of ghost stories and fear-inducing legends associated with Halloween. But medical textbooks have their own collection of rare and perplexing conditions that can seem almost otherworldly.
These often misunderstood rare medical phenomena offer unique challenges for patients, and serve as a reminder of the profound diversity of the human condition. A rare neurological disorder nicknamed after a 1964 Stanley Kubrick film. Sufferers lose control of one hand, which continues to move and function, apparently withThis occurs to toxic deposits of silver in people who are exposed to the metal through their occupations or are taking excess colloidal silver supplements . Mucosal staining can occasionally be caused by dental amalgam ; bad news for vampires with tooth decay.Behaviours such as nail biting, hair pulling, or self-chewing, taken to extremes, can lead to some people literally eating parts of themselves; typically pain-sensitive body partsCotard’s syndrome – walking corpse syndromeHypertrichosis lanuginosa congenita – werewolf syndromea fatal neurological disease in Papua New Guinea caused by consuming the infected brain matter of dead relatives as part of a ritualistic funerary practice. Kuru is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It largely died out after efforts by the authorities in the latter part of the last century to stamp out cannibalism .minutes or hours later , classically after apparently failed CPR. It's named after a figure from the New Testament. Unfortunately for most of those affected, the revival miracle doesn't last.A person is completely paralysed and unable to communicate except for the ability to blink but is fully conscious and aware of their surroundings .The belief that mental illness peaks around the time of a full moon has been prevalent for millennia; Luna was the Roman goddess of the moon .cause sensations of itching, crawling, or stinging. Investigations have found associated sores are due to picking or scratching, and the condition may be a form ofhypersensitivity to sunlight, itching, blistering, and changes in mental state. For a long time it was believed porphyria was responsible for the intermittent “madness” of King George III, although this has more recently been disputed .Dr Sheena Meredith is an established medical writer, editor, and consultant in healthcare communications, with extensive experience writing for medical professionals and the general public. She is qualified in medicine and in law and medical ethics.
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