{"id":2173,"date":"2012-02-05T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2012-02-05T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T00:04:54","slug":"mass-hysteria-mystery-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/blog\/mass-hysteria-mystery-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass hysteria &quot;mystery illness&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(with Marcella Bernardo, CKNW)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samra interviewed on CKNW about mass hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/em>Where\u2019s Dr. House when you need him?\u00a0 Last fall, after a group of teens at New York\u2019s LeRoy Junior-Senior High School began simultaneously exhibiting Tourette syndrome \u2013 like tics and verbal outbursts \u2013 experts were at a loss to explain why. Air quality tests and mold spore counts seemed to rule out environmental causes, and medical exams and neurological workups eliminated infection or disease. Now doctors have come up with a surprising diagnosis: mass hysteria, a phenomenon in which various people in a common group (such as students within a school) experience a spontaneous outbreak of physical symptoms caused by psychological stress.\u00a0 What is mass hysteria?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(with Marcella Bernardo, CKNW) &nbsp; Dr. Samra interviewed on CKNW about mass hysteria. &nbsp; Where\u2019s Dr. House when you need him?\u00a0 Last fall, after a group of teens at New York\u2019s LeRoy Junior-Senior High School began simultaneously exhibiting Tourette syndrome \u2013 like tics and verbal outbursts \u2013 experts were at a loss to explain why. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.drjotisamra.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}