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by lostlogin 1070 days ago
It doesn’t have to be hysteria or mass psychosis or whatever Jonestown was.

There are disease processes which cause some pretty distinctive movements, and this was pointed out last time this topic came up here.

The leg movements in the below case report are dance-like and it’s epilepsy. https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12883-...

In the first link Dang has posted (early 2023) user c3534l started a thread that is interesting. St. Vitis' Dance and Sydenham’s chorea are discussed and it’s an interesting and convincing read.