ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Characteristics of Adolescents Affected by Mass Psychogenic Illness Outbreaks in Schools in Nepal: A Case-Control Study.
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- Factors related to the occurrence of mass psychogenic illness in schools: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Pooled it
- Trait responsiveness to verbal suggestions predicts nocebo responding: A meta-analysis.British journal of health psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- School-based group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in nepal: protocol for a phase III realist cluster-randomised controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Possession Syndrome in Rural Nepal: A Case Study Examining Cultural, Clinical and Forensic Implications.Case reports in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Voluntary and involuntary motor behaviours in the varieties of religious experience.Brain communications · 2025Review
- The spread of mind: psychological contagion in theory and critique.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Advantage of neuroeducation in managing mass psychogenic illness among rural school children in Nepal.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Pedunculopontine-induced cortical decoupling as the neurophysiological locus of dissociation.Psychological review · 2023Article
- The Rise of Functional Tic-Like Behaviors: What Do the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Media Have to Do With It? A Narrative Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
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Abstract
This paper presents the first systematic case-control study of correlates of mass psychogenic illness (MPI) in an adolescent school population. MPI is generally construed as a dissociative phenomenon spread by social contagion to individuals who are prone to dissociation. We sought to test if the correlates of dissociative experiences most commonly proposed in the literature could predict caseness among students affected by episodes of mass psychogenic illness occurring in schools in Nepal. We assessed 194 cases and 190 controls (
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