Exaggerated startle with echolalia and coprolalia in Southeast Asia.
- Specialty
- Psychiatry
- Subspecialty
- Psychiatry / Culture-bound syndromes
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: rare; Female: affected, middle-aged women; Children: no
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Startle-induced echolalia
Etiology & mechanism
Culture-bound startle syndrome.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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