Psychogenic seizures (seizures with a psychological origin) are sometimes called "pseudoseizures" to distinguish them from seizures with a physical basis, such as epilepsy, brain injury, or a ...

Patients are also often put on pain killers. "Patients are snowed on medicine," said Crutchfield, "or worse, told they are psychogenic headaches and they need to see a psychiatrist." ...

When it spreads, this condition is called “mass psychogenic illness,” a phenomenon explored in the podcast “ Hysterical ” through the lens of an outbreak at a high school in Le Roy, New York.