Culture bound syndromes (CBS)
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Culture bound syndromes (CBS). Feeling of unfairness, Subjective and external anger, Heat sensation, Dry mouth. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Hwa-Byung: Korean anger syndrome
- Feeling of unfairness
- Subjective and external anger
- Heat sensation
- Dry mouth
- Sighing
Djinnati syndrome: possession syndrome in Iran and Pakistan
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Voodoo spirit possession: in Haiti
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Dhat syndrome: in South Asia
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Hikikomori syndrome: prolonged social withdrawal in Japan
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Amok: bouts of mass murder in the Malay Peninsula
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Koro: genital retraction in Asia and Africa
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Zar spirit possession: in Africa and the Middle East
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Other culture bound syndromes
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References
- Lee J, Wachholtz A, Choi KH. A review of the Korean cultural syndrome hwa-byung: suggestions for theory and intervention. Asia Taepyongyang Sangdam Yongu 2014; 4:49.
- Min SK, Suh SY, Song KJ. Symptoms to use for diagnostic criteria of hwa-byung, an anger syndrome. Psychiatry Investig 2009; 6:7-12.
- Khosravi M. Djinnati syndrome as the first manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy: a case report. Eur J Transl Myol 2021 (Online ahead of print).
- Bakhshani NM, Hosseinbore N, Kianpoor M. Djinnati syndrome: symptoms and prevalence in rural population of Baluchistan (southeast of Iran). Asian J Psychiatr 2013; 6:566-570.
- Cavanna AE, Cavanna S, Cavanna A. Epileptic seizures and spirit possession in Haitian culture: report of four cases and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav 2010; 19:89-91.
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