... patients. Only music provided any relief for tarantism. Later authors suggested that the dancing mania was a mass stress-induced psychosis, a mass psychogenic illness, a culturally determined form of ritualized behavior, a manifestation of religious ecstasy, or even the result of food poisoning caused...

...: Positron emission tomographic evidence of toxic effect of MDMA (“ecstasy”) on brain serotonin neurons in human beings. Lancet 1998;352:1433-1437. 118. McCann UD, Szabo Z, Vranesic M, Seckin E, Wand G, Duval A, Dannals RF, Ricaurte GA: Quantitative positron emission tomography studies of the serotonin...

...-Methylenedioxymethylamphetamine, known as “ecstasy,” has been reported to cause severe and life-threatening hyponatremia. This is due to increased AVP secretion from the pituitary in combination with excessive water intake as an attempt to counteract hyperthermia, commonly observed in 3,4-methylenedioxymethylamphetamine users...

..., Fortescue EB, Mannix RC, Wypij D, Binstadt BA, et al: Hyponatremia among runners in the Boston Marathon. New Engl J Med 2005;352:1550-1556. 37. Campbell GA, Rosner MH: The agony of ecstasy: MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and the kidney. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2008;3:1852-1860. 38. Rafat C...

... ]. Two drugs have been reported to cause extensive, long-term, or even irreversible 5-HT neuronal degeneration. These include the banned weight reduction agent, fenfluramine, and its alternate form, dexfenfluramine, and the drug of abuse, ecstasy (MDMA). Their damaging effects on 5-HT neurons and axon...

..., Boer WH: High incidence of mild hyponatraemia in females using ecstasy at a rave party. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2013;28:2277-2283. 24. Moritz ML, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Ayus JC: Ecstacy-associated hyponatremia: why are women at risk? Nephrol Dial Transplant 2013;28:2206-2209. 25. Liamis G, Milionis...

... 1995;178:171–175. 19. Hermont AP, Oliveira PA, Martins CC, Paiva SM, Pordeus IA, Auad SM: Tooth erosion and eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One 2014;9:e111123. 20. Duxbury AJ: Ecstasy – dental implications. Br Dent J 1993;175:38. 21. Vieira A, Overweg E, Ruben JL...

... occasions to sell their HIV medications, with many acknowledging that they had sold medications for cash or traded them for illicit drugs. Focus group participants also noted that medications such as ritonavir heightened the psychoactive effects of methamphetamine and ecstasy, that efavirenz was sought...

... recognized as the primary etiology [ 36 ]. This disorder is discussed in detail in chapter by Liamis et al. [this vol., pp 167-177]. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, Ecstasy Illicit use of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is associated with hyponatremia. The principal cause is drug-stimulated AVP...

... of chronic glue (toluene) abuse in adolescents.. Aust NZ J Med 1984;14:39-43 45. Setola V, Hufeisen SJ, Grande-Allen KJ, Vesely I, Glennon RA, Blough B, et al: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ‘ecstasy’) induces fenfluramine-like proliferative actions on human cardiac valvular interstitial cells...

... and admiration of the men surrounding the stigmatic woman. In this way he illustrated the words of Alexandre Brière de Boismont (1797-1881) who, in 1852 in the chapter on “Hallucinations in Ecstasy” of his treatise on hallucinations, wrote: “Ecstasy often complicates hysteria” [Brière de Boismont, 1852...

... ecstasies might be corked up in a pint-bottle’ [ Sandblom, 1996 ]. Other famous writers and poets used opium. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the most brilliant English writer of his generation. Coleridge's inability to concentrate and to carry to full potentiality the expression of his genius...

... and 1853) the connection among moralism, hallucinations, and psychiatric diseases. For him, epidemic hallucinations, vampirism, ecstasy could be transmitted only by “ideas.” Thus, hallucinations should be cured (in accordance with Pinel), by “ideas” or “reasoning with the patient” (the dawning...

... and the Doors of Perception. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 1988; 66. Markel H: An Anatomy of Addiction. Sigmund Freud, Sam Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine New York, Pantheon Books, 2011; 67. Bennett D: Dr. Ecstasy. The New York Times Magazine, January 30 2005;30-37 68...

... such as foreign particle microembolization [ 42 ]. Other Substances In the early 1980s, severe clinical pulmonary hypertension was reported in boys with a history of chronic glue (toluene) abuse for 6 months or more [ 44 ]. It is also of concern that 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ‘ecstasy...

... ecstasy and possession. They strike a balance between moral interpretation and drama, as does Charcot's iconography, colored by Bourneville's anticlerical progressivism. Although it is impossible here to analyze the entire literary output from the period, it is clear that hysteria acted as a stage...

... 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...