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     Encephalitis Lethargica Disease, Portrayed in the Movie "Awakenings", Accompanied the 1918 Spanish Flu

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     Encephalitis Lethargica Awakenings Oliver Sacks with text

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     This Neurological Disease Kept People Sleeping for 40 Years

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2. www.youtube.com › watchThe Most TERRIFYING Disease In History? - Encephalitis lethargica

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   285 views 6 minutes ago. The subject of today’s video is a disease that even to this day is still not properly understood. It is a disease that robs a patient of movement, of control of their ...

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3. www.youtube.com › watchThe Horrifying Forgotten Encephalitis Lethargica Pandemic ...

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   Nov 25, 2007 · 12K. 195K views 3 years ago. In the video today, we're looking at the relatively modern forgotten pandemic that killed over a million people, left tens of thousands more having lost the will to...

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4. www.youtube.com › watchThe story behind 'Awakenings': Oliver Sacks, L-Dopa, and ...

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   Feb 26, 2015 · 78 subscribers. Subscribed. Like. 25K views 8 years ago. Oliver Sacks' exploration of--and attempt to treat--'Sleepy Sickness' (aka Encephalitis Lethargica) in 1969. ...more.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Encephalitis_lethargicaEncephalitis lethargica - Wikipedia

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   Encephalitis lethargica is characterized by high fever, sore throat, headache, lethargy, double vision, delayed physical and mental response, sleep inversion and catatonia. [5] [10] In severe cases, patients may enter a coma -like state ( akinetic mutism ). [citation needed] .

6. www.neurologylive.com › view › encephalitisEncephalitis Lethargica: The Still Unexplained Sleeping Sickness

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   Feb 12, 2018 · The encephalitis lethargica epidemic of 1916-1930 is estimated to have affected at least half a million people in Europe. The disease is documented to have spread throughout the world to afflict hundreds of thousands more. The cause of the strange illness still remains a mystery today.

7. academic.oup.com › brain › articleEncephalitis lethargica: 100 years after the epidemic

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   Jul 14, 2017 · The chronic phase of encephalitis lethargica typically developed 1 to 5 years after the acute phase, but it could also follow immediately, or more than a decade later. One patient developed a postencephalitic syndrome 45 years after initial infection ( Sacks, 1990 ).

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   Is encephalitis lethargica a medical mystery?

   • Encephalitis lethargica was characterized in a 2004 BBC documentary as the biggest medical mystery of the 20th century, and remains that to this day. No funding was received towards this work. In: , editor. In: , editor. © The Author (2017). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. All rights reserved.

   Encephalitis lethargica: 100 years after the epidemic

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   Does encephalitis lethargica recur?

   • There has been no epidemic recurrence of encephalitis lethargica since the early 20th century, but putative sporadic cases continue to occur. Encephalitis lethargica was classically characterized by acute and chronic phases, although the two often blended together.

   Encephalitis lethargica: 100 years after the epidemic

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   What is the aetiology of encephalitis lethargica?

   • After 100 years of research, the aetiology of encephalitis lethargica is still unknown. Although a number of theories have been proposed, there are two main categories of plausible aetiologies: environmental (toxicological) and infectious (viral, bacterial, etc.).

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9. www.ninds.nih.gov › encephalitis-lethargicaEncephalitis Lethargica | National Institute of Neurological ...

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   Nov 28, 2023 · What is encephalitis lethargica? Encephalitis lethargica is a disease characterized by: High fever; Headache; Double vision; Delayed physical and mental response; Lethargy/fatigue; In acute cases, people with the disorder may enter coma. Some also may experience: Abnormal eye movements; Upper body weakness; Muscular pains; Tremors; Neck rigidity