This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (37)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Myriachit

HAROLD STEVENS, MD

Arch Neurol. 1965;12(3):311-314.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

AT THE FOURTH Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association in 1878, Dr. George M. Beard announced that he planned to make an investigation of a group of patients known as the "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine," who lived in the Moosehead Lake region of northern Maine, the sole endemic area for this new disease.¹

Based on his observations of 50 cases, including 14 cases in four families, he reported his findings at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association in 1880 in a paper entitled, "Experiments with the Jumpers or Jumping Frenchmen of Maine."² He found that the disorder began in childhood, was familial, was rarely in females, persisted throughout life, and was characterized by a marked and violent jump in response to sudden noise or startle. These paroxysms never occurred spontaneously and were not associated with loss of consciousness. In addition, some of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, DC

From the George Washington University. Professor of Neurology.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 8, 1964; accepted Sept 29.

Reprint requests to 3000 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?