The Twitching Girls of Leroy

The Twitching Girls of Leroy

We look back to another health scare  Why did a group of teenage girls develop twitches and other ticks?  Was it chemical? or something else?

Location:

Leroy, NY

Sources for the show:

Associated Press. “12 Girls at NY High School Develop Involuntary Tics; Doc Says It's 'Mass Psychogenic Illness'.” Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2012, web.archive.org/web/20120123183938/www.washingtonpost.com/national/12-girls-at-ny-high-school-develop-involuntary-tics-doc-says-its-mass-psychogenic-illness/2012/01/20/gIQA5k5bEQ_story.html.

Bartholomew, Robert E, et al. “Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Social Network: Is It Changing the Pattern of Outbreaks?” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine Press, Dec. 2012, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536509/.

“Complex Rhetorical Contagion: A Case Study of Mass Hysteria.” Enculturation, enculturation.net/complex_rhetorical_contagion.

“Conversion Disorder.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder.(“Website” n.d.)

“The Curious Case Of Teen Tics In Le Roy, N.Y.” NPR, NPR, 10 Mar. 2012, www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of-teen-tics-in-le-roy-n-y.

Dolan, Senior Producer Laura, and National Correspondent Jason Carroll. “Twitching Disorder Affects 12 Girls at New York High School.” CNN, Cable News Network, 19 Jan. 2012, www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/health/new-york-students-illness/index.html.

Dominus, Susan. “What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 7 Mar. 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html.

Graham, Ruth. “Why Are More Than a Dozen Girls in Upstate New York Twitching?” Slate Magazine, Slate, 31 Jan. 2012, slate.com/human-interest/2012/01/mass-hysteria-in-upstate-new-york-why-lori-brownell-and-13-other-teenage-girls-are-showing-tourettes-like-symptoms.html.

Greenfield, Rebecca. “The Twitching Condition That (Maybe) Struck Le Roy's Girls.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 30 Oct. 2013, www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/twitching-condition-maybe-struck-le-roys-girls/330830/.

Gulley, Neale. “School's End Clears up New York Students' Mystery Twitching.” Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 23 June 2012, www.reuters.com/article/us-students-twitcnew-york-h/schools-end-clears-up-new-york-students-mystery-twitching-idUSBRE85M0DF20120623.

“List of Mass Hysteria Cases.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Mar. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases.

“What is Conversion Disorder? | Comprehensive Review.” Dr. Todd Grande, https://youtu.be/U4nf3_QU82w.

“Mystery Illness SOLVED!” WPXI-TV News Pittsburgh,  https://youtu.be/uDZOYk9jNhs

“Conversion Disorder” TodayTonightAdelaide, https://youtu.be/_jOuqAcgMrA

Music:

Cattails Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Ghost Dance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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