Wernicke's cramp
Wernicke's cramp is painful psychogenic muscle cramp precipitated by anxiety or fear.[1] The condition was first described by the notable German neurologist Carl Wernicke in his seminal work Ein Fall von Crampus-Neurose.[2]
Wernicke discovered the syndrome though his work with a patient known as Gerda S. who had an acute fear of pencil shavings which had a deleterious affect on her work as a clerk in the German electronics company Siemens. He achieved a partial cure through the use of high-frequency low-voltage signal applied to the temples which he demonstrated in a lecture at the University of WrocÅaw in May 1904.[3]
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Notes & references
- â http://www.whonamedit.com/syndlist.cfm/41
- â Published by Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, 1904
- â Companion to Clinical Neurology by William Pryse-Phillips, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2003
- â http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/889.html