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	Encyclopedia: Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a rare disorder originally described by G. Beard in 1878.
		"Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" a obscure neurological disorder is one strange disease.
		Originally, "Jumping Frenchmen" was identified in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine among French Canadian lumberjacks.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jumping-Frenchmen-of-Maine (555 words)

	Jumping Frenchmen of Maine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a rare disorder originally described by G.
		Further studies of the condition in the 1980s, however, cast doubt on whether the "Jumping Frenchmen" phenomenon was in fact a physical condition like Tourette's.
		Documentation of direct observation of "Jumping Frenchmen" has been scarce, and while videotape evidence was recorded by several researchers that showed the condition to be real, Saint-Hilaire concluded from studying eight affected people that it was brought on by conditions at their lumber camps and was psychological, not neurological.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine (251 words)

	Jumping Frenchmen of Maine - St. Joseph Mercy, Ann Arbor Michigan
		It is possible that the main title of the report Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is not the name you expected.
		"Jumping Frenchmen" is a disorder characterized by an unusually extreme startle reaction.
		"Jumping Frenchmen" is suspected to be a genetic disorder and/or an extreme conditioned response to a particular situation possibly influenced by cultural factors.
	www.sjmercyhealth.org /14230.cfm (420 words)

	MedicalPost.com: Jumping Frenchman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It was said that if a Jumping Frenchman was standing next to his mother with an axe in his hand, and was told to strike, he would do so without hesitation.
		Tourette was more on the mark with his 1884 article on "jumping, latah and myriachit." He felt these were one and the same phenomenon manifesting in different parts of the world.
		This idea is strengthened by the observation that jumping diminishes when the sufferers leave the environment in which the behaviour is reinforced.
	www.medicalpost.com /mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20030429_093411_1876 (756 words)

	Jumping Frenchmen of Maine - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Jumping Frenchmen of Maine contains research on
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, See also, External link, Mental illness diagnosis by DSM and ISCDRHP, Eponymous diseases and Culture-specific syndromes.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Jumping_Frenchmen (280 words)

	Jumping Frenchmen of Maine -- Saint-Hilaire et al. 36 (9): 1269 -- Neurology
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine -- Saint-Hilaire et al.
		The "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" were described by George Beard in 1878.
		that "jumping" was similar to the syndrome that now bears his name.
	www.neurology.org /cgi/content/abstract/36/9/1269 (150 words)

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		MH Saint-Hilaire, JM Saint-Hilaire, and L Granger Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Neurology 1986 36: 1269-1271.
		Maine Medical Center Portland, Maine 1988-1990 Resident in Pediatrics Maine Medical Center Portland, Maine 1990-1991 Resident in Neurology George Washington...
		Maine Maine Neurology, Scarborough, Maine, 04074-8926, United States.
	www.peakdoctor.org /maine.htm (4396 words)

	Wiki: Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		From the jumping Frenchmen of Maine to post-traumatic stress disorder: the startle response in neuropsychiatry.
		The startle response is a universal and phylogenetically ancient reflex.
		2: Howard R, Ford R. From the jumping Frenchmen of Maine to post-traumatic stress disorder: the startle response in neuropsychiatry.
	ax.to /girls/index.pl?Jumping_Frenchmen_of_Maine (308 words)

	Encyclopedia: Latah
		A culture-bound syndrome is a psychological condition that is confined to certain cultures or cultural groups.
		Similar conditions have been recorded in other parts of the world such as Maine and Yemen but the connection between these behaviors remains unclear.
		Latah Creek, heralded by Wine Spectator Magazine as one of the top producers of Merlot in the State of Washington, offers guests the opportunity to visit one of the most picturesque small wineries in the area.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Latah (359 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - An Introduction to Don DeLillo (Part One - 'Amazons')
		Jumping Frenchmen is like a Touret's Syndrome of the body, characterised by uncontrollable Strangelove-like body movements, which fellow sufferers involuntarily mimic.
		Buried in the wash of hilarity and misdirection is the hidden pearl of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, and characteristic long digressions on unrelated subjects.
		This account of the origins of Jumping Frenchmen reads like a description of one of those fabled all-too-human reactions to modernity, the (literal) shock of the new.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A584732 (1351 words)

	Hyperexplexia
		It is possible that the main title of the report is not the name you expected.
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a disorder characterized by an extreme startle reaction consisting of jumping, raising the arms, yelling, hitting, obeying sudden commands, or involuntarily repeating sentences.
		It is suspected to be a genetic disorder and/or an extreme conditioned response to a particular situation possibly influenced by cultural factors.
	hw.healthdialog.com /kbase/nord/nord816.htm (1234 words)

	Culture Bound Syndromes Explanation of the Cause and Connection Between Them
		The jumping diseases demonstrate that this common cause is something that existed in rural Maine in the 1880's and existed at the same time in the forests of Malaysia.
		While it is easy to see the connection between Jumping Frenchmen of Maine and Latah because both affected groups lived in single-room arrangements, bunkhouses and longhouses, the conditions for exposure to Subliminal Distraction can happen almost anywhere.
		Operant conditioning evaluated as the cause of the Jumping Diseases functions to create paranoia, then paranoia colors thought when there is a dispute to create the violent attacks near the point of a mental break.
	www.visionandpsychosis.net /Culture_Bound_Syndromes.htm (13030 words)

	Orphan Products: Hope for People With Rare Diseases
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine sounds like an uproarious, modern-day stage show or even a new wave rock group.
		It's the name of an unusual disorder that causes an extreme startle reaction to unexpected noises or sights.
		Though little is known about Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, the disorder and more than 6,000 other rare or "orphan" diseases are receiving increasing attention from government, patient groups, and the pharmaceutical industry.
	www.fda.gov /fdac/features/2003/603_orphan.html (2485 words)

	Canadian Psychiatric Association - The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry - June 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The major feature of TS patients—repeated, involuntary motor tics—was not part of the “jumping” picture.) Beard’s paper was followed by other descriptions of cases that appeared to be similar to the jumpers: myriachit in Siberia (32) and the previously described latah of Malaysia and Indonesia.
		Tourette’s 1884 article on “jumping, latah and myriachit” (33), which claimed that these 3 conditions were the same as his cases of “convulsive tics,” led to sometimes acrimonious debate about whether they really were the same and who it was who first described these conditions (34).
		Again anthropologists argued that latah is a unique disorder emerging from the distinct Malay culture; and that although latah-like behaviour may occur in other cultures, it is not the same illness.
	www.cpa-apc.org /Publications/Archives/CJP/2000/June/InReview5.asp (849 words)

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		andquot;Jumping Frenchmen of Maineandquot; a obscure neurological disorder is one strange disease.
	www.expo-zimmer.de /JumpingFrenchmenofMaine (279 words)

	Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
		Hyperekplexia is characterized by an excessive startle response, falling without loss of consciousness, a history of resistance to stretching (hypertonia) in infancy, exaggeration of reflexes (hyperreflexia), and an unstable gait.
		It is expressed as a brief muscular contraction predominating on one-half of the body in response to sudden noise or movement.
		Howard R, et al., From the jumping Frenchmen of Maine to post-traumatic stress syndrome: the startle response in neuropsychiatry.
	hw.healthdialog.com /kbase/nord/nord380.htm (1111 words)

	The DCP - Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
		Tourette became interested in movement disorders by reading medical reports of the "jumping Frenchmen of Maine", by George Beard in 1878 and 1880.
		The "jumping Frenchmen" were lumberjacks of French-Canadian decent living in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine.
		Gilles de la Tourette made the deduction that if there were jumping Frenchmen in Maine, there ought to be jumping Frenchmen in France.
	www.fortunecity.com /campus/electrical/846/tourette (3900 words)

	CNN.com - Medical mysteries, bizarre cases - Feb. 20, 2004
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, wandering spleen.
		Being extremely startled by an unexpected noise or sight is the main characteristic of the disorder with the peculiar name of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
		First identified in some of Maine's lumberjacks of French-Canadian origin, the odd reflex has been identified in other parts of the world, too.
	www.cnn.com /2004/HEALTH/02/20/strange.cases/index.html (731 words)

	Ubergeek Theatre » How to Make Friends and Startle Sheep
		However, the Jumping Frenchman of Maine disorder and its variants have a very important distinction.
		Therefore, Tourette’s is Tourette’s and the Jumping Frenchmen are the Jumping Frenchmen.
		Some people feel that Jumping Frenchman disease is distinct, and that Hyperekplexia was discovered in 1962 by a Dr. Kok.
	www.ubergeektheatre.com /?p=12 (1672 words)

	The Cause of Psychotic Mental Illness
		They concluded the jumping disease was not a neurological disorder but caused by operant conditioning due to special circumstances at Mooselake lumber camps.
		In the case of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine the occupation of lumberjack was the determining factor.
		The recent Maine and Vermont longitudinal studies of people released from the back wards of hospitals to the community in the 1960’s, showed that at least half recovered and became functional again.
	www.visionandpsychosis.net /Psychotic_Mental_Illness_Cause.htm (11698 words)

	The Franco-American Women's Institute
		Richard, a man in his early fifties, was raised in Bradley, Maine, in a traditional Franco-American home with two brothers and one sister born late in his mother's life.
		So,, other men jumped up too and held the first one around their ankles, and they too pulled; finally the "Human Grapes" won and the trailer came down, everyone out of the way just in time.
		The Women of this book are from Aroostook County, Maine and they give a genuine portrayal of the way life used to be for women growing up in "the County".
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	Myoclonus, General
		Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a very rare disorder characterized by an extreme startle response.
		The symptoms occur as a response to sudden, unexpected noise or movement.
		The extreme startle reaction includes jumping, raising the arms, hitting, yelling, unintelligible speech, and/or imitation or repetition of another person's body movements (echopraxia).
	hw.healthdialog.com /kbase/nord/nord62.htm (2381 words)

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		The second article was William Hammond´s description of what he had seen in Russia and was called Myriatchit, a condition that resembled the symptomatology exhibited by the jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
		Whereas Tourette did not differentiate this syndrome from myriachit, latah, or the jumping Frenchman of Maine, in which echolalia was a prominent symptom, the frequency and importance of echolalia were exaggerated.
		The main dopamine receptors are D1 and D2 receptors, which can be further divided into postsynaptic receptors and autoreceptors (positioned on the soma, dendrites, or nerve terminals of the cell).
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		Copyright 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2000 Synonyms of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine Jumping Frenchmen Latah (Observed in Malaysia) Myriachit (Observed in Siberia) Disorder Subdivisions...
		noise or sight is the main characteristic of the disorder with the peculiar name of Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
		Descrizione : La malattia degli andquot;Jumping Frenchmen of Maineandquot; è l'appellativo di un'anomala reazione di spavento (startle) che occorre in alcune po...
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	Yale Medicine Winter 2004: Essay
		We have the scimitar sign, the cloverleaf skull and my personal favorite, the jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome.
		We never say he has a fl eye when what he really has is a periorbital ecchymosis.
		There’s only one main use for a stethoscope, and we call it auscultation.
	info.med.yale.edu /external/pubs/ym_wi04/essay.html (694 words)

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		While this diagnosis sounds a lot like the psychologically based Bipolar or Manic-Depressive disorders, I'm confident that Flair's is physical in nature, caused by years of carrying broomsticks and overdoing the "crimson mask." His other symptoms include a fear of riding in anything but limousines and obsessively grabbing the breasts of wrestling columnists.
		The Disorder: " 'Jumping Frenchman' is a disorder characterized by an unusually extreme startle reaction.
		Besides, he's likely to lose the jumping reaction, along with the Frenchman gimmick, as he grows older and his career progresses.
	www.onlineonslaught.com /features/20040506.shtml (2833 words)

	FARK.com: (842398) New book of bizarre ailments include Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, ...
		The symptoms you describe lead me to believe that you are suffering from bonus eruptus, a rare disorder in which the skeleton tries to jump out of the skin.
		If ever I there was a euphemism for someone killing kittens, it has to be Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
		French-Canadian lumberjacks in Maine becoming so startled that they flail their arms wildy, crying out, repeating words.
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	spacebar :: December :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Maybe I’ll learn enough in time to produce a sweater for Pooh, in a more bearish color, of course.
		First reported in French-Canadian lumberjacks in Maine and Quebec.
		A person suffering this disorder has an extreme startle reaction to the unexpected.
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