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3 more students affected.
Three more Le Roy High School students have reported neurological symptoms like those of a dozen classmates who exhibited unusual tics and verbal outbursts in recent months.
The three students came forward in the last few days and are "being evaluated by private medical professionals," said Jeffrey Hammond, a spokesman for the state Department of Health.
Previously, 12 high school students in the Genesee County district, all of them girls, had reported symptoms not unlike those of Tourette's syndrome. Some television news reports Wednesday said one of the three new symptomatic students was a boy, but Hammond said he could not confirm that.
Two teen-age girls in Saratoga County with seemingly similar symptoms also have come forward, their only apparent connection to Le Roy is the claim that they ate lunch there one day last summer. They were interviewed Tuesday by an Albany television station. Hammond said the state health department was not looking into those cases.
The Le Roy cluster apparently dates to sometime last year, but wasn't publicly reported until early November, when the number of afflicted students was six. The situation gained national attention when two of the girls appeared last week on NBC's Today show.
Buffalo pediatric neurologists who treated most of the students said last week that they believed the girls suffered from conversion disorder ? a medical condition in which people unconsciously react to psychological trauma or stress by exhibiting genuine physiological symptoms. The suggestion was that one student developed symptoms and other students unconsciously followed suit.
Some Le Roy parents and students have questioned that diagnosis, however, and are seeking second opinions.
Le Roy school superintendent Kim Cox issued a written statement Wednesday acknowledging "a few new possible cases." She reiterated that earlier testing had ruled out environmental contaminants or infections as a cause.
Can we get Dr. House up in here or something?
Re: 3 more students affected.
Buffalo pediatric neurologists who treated most of the students said last week that they believed the girls suffered from conversion disorder ? a medical condition in which people unconsciously react to psychological trauma or stress by exhibiting genuine physiological symptoms. The suggestion was that one student developed symptoms and other students unconsciously followed suit.
Most important point, IMO.
If one person exhibits symptoms and others see it getting attention, they may start to exhibit the same symptoms. I'm not saying that they're doing it on purpose, I think it's an unconsious thing.
I'm a firm believer that a psychological condition can be every bit as contagious as a virus.
And that tendency is doubled in teenagers.
Neurologic disorders have a gradual progression--symptoms start out mild and gradually get worse. Not "I was fine, took a nap, and woke up with horrible physical tics." That's the biggest clue that this is a psychological problem.
It's thought to be the same thing that prompted the Salem witch trials.
Ironically, conversion disorder was covered on House. It's a pretty good episode.
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