She received her Ph . D . from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago until contracting encephalitis lethargica.
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A 1961 report by Wohlfart described a postman known as K . R . who contracted encephalitis lethargica at the age of 12.
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In his 1973 book " Awakenings, " for example, Sacks chronicled what happened when patients " frozen " for decades by encephalitis lethargica were given the drug L-dopa.
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In 1916, von Economo described encephalitis lethargica ( EL ), a CNS disorder presenting with pharyngitis followed by sleep disorder, basal ganglia signs ( particularly parkinsonism ) and neuropsychiatric sequelae.
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The patients featured in the film " Awakenings " were victims of an epidemic in the 1920s of encephalitis lethargica, which left tens of thousands of people with permanent brain damage.
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Obsessions and compulsions are also very common in several other medical conditions, including : Tourette syndrome, Parkinson disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia, Huntington disease, encephalitis lethargica, Sydenham chorea, and damage to specific brain regions.
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Flatau was the first in Poland to describe the cases of Encephalitis lethargica and on occasion the name " Economo-Flatau disease " was used to identify this disease in Polish medical literature.
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Also a narrative nonfiction account, it tells the story of the mysterious 1920s epidemic of encephalitis lethargica or Von Economo s encephalitis, popularly known as sleepy sickness ( different from sleeping sickness ).
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He is remembered for his extensive research of Parkinsonism, and in a 1921 treatise titled " Rapport sur les syndromes parkinsoniens ", he documented the importance of encephalitis lethargica as a cause of Parkinsonism.
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Encephalitis lethargica inspired the disease at the heart of Forrest Carr's post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel " A Journal of the Crazy Year, " and is investigated in the plot as a potential cause of the world-ending outbreak.
