jumping disease

jumping disease
any of several culture-specific disorders characterized by exaggerated responses to small stimuli, muscle tics including jumping, automatic obedience even to dangerous suggestions, and sometimes coprolalia or echolalia. It is unclear whether they are neurogenic or psychogenic in origin. See also latah, myriachit, jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome, and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.

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