Conversion disorder

• When 12 students at a high school in New York suddenly developed strange symptoms like stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and verbal outbursts, the community was concerned.
(CNN)
• I am intrigued and bothered by this LeRoy mystery illness case. Whats really eating at me is the dismissal by some of the conversion disorder diagnosis.
(Rochester City Newspaper)
• A doctor in Buffalo said today, hes treating four more young girls with tics in LeRoy. Hes diagnosed three of them with conversion disorder.
(msnbc.com)
• ATLANTA -- Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.
(Daily Camera)
• Recently there has been a great deal of coverage of 12 unfortunate teenage girls from the small community of Le Roy, N.Y. These teenagers had all around the same time inexplicably begun to exhibit many of the signs of Tourettes Syndrome.
(Huffington Post)
• BUFFALO, N.Y. -- We are hearing today that the doctor treating some students from LeRoy High School with conversion disorder, is treating four new cases in the past two days, three of which he confirms are conversion disorder. Dr.
(WGRZ TV)
• I get up pretty early in the morning, sometimes as early as 3am as I did today. When Im writing, I always have a news channel on mute just to the left of my flat screen monitor just in case a news story breaks thats of interest.
(DAILY KOS)
• Le Roy, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Concern over a mysterious disorder affecting a group of girls in Western New York spreads across the state, reportedly attracting attention from Environmental Activist Erin Brockovich.
(WBNG-TV)
• Its a term used so rarely that most of us havent heard of it. Even mental health professionals say they have read about it in textbooks rather than seen it up close.
(USA Today)