Jumping Frenchman Syndrome

The Jumping Frenchman's syndrome is a very rare disorder with an exaggerated startle response . It was first described in 1878 by the American neurologist George Miller Beard .

The name refers to the region of the observed occurrence in the US state of Maine . Many of the French-Canadian lumberjacks came from the region Beauce (Quebec) in Canada or the Moosehead Lake . The cause has not been clarified, but familial accumulation has been observed.

The abnormalities start around or after puberty . There are excessive frightening reactions to loud or unexpected noises, shouts or movements or physical contact with jumping, screaming or kicking around. Further abnormalities such as echolalia , echopraxia or coprolalia can then occur.

literature

MH Saint-Hilaire, JM Saint-Hilaire: Jumping Frenchmen of Maine. In: Movement disorders: official journal of the Movement Disorder Society. Vol. 16, No. 3, May 2001, p. 530, PMID 11391751 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.  In: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man . (English)
2. ↑ GM Beard: Remarks upon 'jumpers or jumping Frenchmen'. In: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol. 5, 1878, p. 526
3. ^ H. Stevens: "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine". In: JAMA. Vol. 313, No. 9, March 2015, p. 974, doi: 10.1001 / jama.2014.11618 , PMID 25734750 .
4. ^ Rare Diseases

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