Culture bound syndromes (CBS)

Evidence-based neurology checklist on culture bound syndromes (cbs): Hwa-Byung: Korean anger syndrome Feeling of unfairness Subjective and external anger Heat sensation Dry mouth Sighing Djinnati syndrome: possession syndrome in Iran and Pakistan Voodoo spirit possession: in Haiti Dhat syndrome:…

Hwa-Byung: Korean anger syndrome

  • Feeling of unfairness
  • Subjective and external anger
  • Heat sensation
  • Dry mouth
  • Sighing

Djinnati syndrome: possession syndrome in Iran and Pakistan

Voodoo spirit possession: in Haiti

Dhat syndrome: in South Asia

Hikikomori syndrome: prolonged social withdrawal in Japan

Amok: bouts of mass murder in the Malay Peninsula

Koro: genital retraction in Asia and Africa

Zar spirit possession: in Africa and the Middle East

Other culture bound syndromes

References

  1. Lee J, Wachholtz A, Choi KH. A review of the Korean cultural syndrome hwa-byung: suggestions for theory and intervention. Asia Taepyongyang Sangdam Yongu 2014; 4:49. 
  2. Min SK, Suh SY, Song KJ. Symptoms to use for diagnostic criteria of hwa-byung, an anger syndrome. Psychiatry Investig 2009; 6:7-12.
  3. Khosravi M. Djinnati syndrome as the first manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy: a case report. Eur J Transl Myol 2021 (Online ahead of print).
  4. Bakhshani NM, Hosseinbore N, Kianpoor M. Djinnati syndrome: symptoms and prevalence in rural population of Baluchistan (southeast of Iran). Asian J Psychiatr 2013; 6:566-570.
  5. Cavanna AE, Cavanna S, Cavanna A. Epileptic seizures and spirit possession in Haitian culture: report of four cases and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav 2010; 19:89-91. 
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