Malaria

A life-threatening parasitic disease caused by <i>Plasmodium</i> (<i>P. </i>) parasites that are transmitted by <i>Anophles</i> mosquito bites to humans and is typically clinically characterized by attacks of fever, headache, chills and vomiting.

Parkinsonism

Characteristic neurologic anomaly resulting form degeneration of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain, characterized clinically by shaking, rigidity, slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait.


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 MALE Adult
[The painful body of the psychotic. A balance between psychiatric symptoms and somatic diseases in somatic patients].
Blanquer A, Veyrat JG.
Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1995;153(1):1-18.
The effectiveness of ancient or modern psychiatric therapeutics is partially based on their body effect (like hypoglicemics in Sakel therapy, seizures in E.C.T., fever in malaria therapy, iatrogenic parkinsonism in neuroleptic treatment).