... Catalepsy [32]. Babinski gave the name ‘cerebellar catalepsy’ to the power of muscles, in the state of voluntary contraction, to stay still in certain positions for a long time. Cerebellar catalepsy has disappeared from the cerebellar semiology. Making...

... (spasmic seizures with syncope, seizures with hysterical convulsions, epilepsy, catalepsy, ecstasy, sleepwalking, sleep, coma or lethargy, and delirium), clearly differentiating epileptic seizures presented by hysterics (group 4) from hysterical convulsions (group 3). At this time, although characterized...

... Neurol (Paris) 1902;X:1013-1015 32. Babinski J: De l’équilibre volitionnel statique et de l’équilibre volitionnel cinétique (dissociation de ces deux modes de l’équilibre volitionnel, asynergie et catalepsie). Rev Neurol (Paris) 1902;X:470-474 33. Lhermitte F: Le syndrome cérébelleux. Étude...

..., let me explain to you the nature of my attack, and the appearance it will present. I am seized with a fit of catalepsy 1 ; when it comes to its height, I may probably lie still and motionless as though dead, uttering neither sigh nor groan. On the other hand, the symptoms may be much more violent...

..., catalepsy, ecstasy) and dual personality, and later with multiple personality. • The history of ‘mad travelers' is recounted by Philippe-Auguste Tissié (1852-1935) in his thesis and it constitutes Pitres' 56th lesson [ 18 ]. It has been retold by Hacking [ 1 ]. The ‘cas princeps', 26-year-old Albert...

... de la Tourette differentiated three states typical for ‘grand hypnotisme': lethargy, catalepsy, and somnambulism. He also recognized initial states such as lucid lethargy, fascination, and charm states [ 1 ]. He stated that hypnotized individuals, he called them ‘automatons', were in a conscious...

... catalepsy, etc. [ 3 ]. Many, not knowing the author of the book, believed him to be a doctor. At the time, Balzac is often described as ‘the Dupuytren manuscript museum’, ‘the Molière doctor’ [ 4 ]. Magnetism and somnambulism fascinated Balzac. He was obsessed by these inexplicable phenomena...

... captured by the variety of expressions the figures portray: prostration in some, hebetude in others, catalepsy in all of them. On the wall in the background, near the window, a poster shows the “somnambulic well” mentioned by Daudet. Luys conceived of it for didactic purposes to show the successive phases...

...) concerning ‘induced somnambulism', Charcot used hypnotism as a tool for pathophysiological exploration after conceding the failure of his anatomical-clinical method. An insidious conceptual shift led him to assimilate hysteria with hypnosis, which is described according to three stages: lethargy, catalepsy...

... about researching metaloscopy, electricity, electromagnets, magnetized iron and their applications to hysteria, sleep walking, catalepsy, lethargy and analgesia. If these experiences now seem innocent, credulous or frankly stupid, we should consider them within the medical and cultural setting...

... the result, the manifestation, of a doubling of personality. For Janet, the ecstasies, catalepsies and fugues are only ‘various degrees or forms of somnambulism' and the main explanation is that ‘the psychological phenomenon on which these accidents depend is amnesia' [ 46 ]. He then extended his...