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Pibloktoq

Culture-Bound Syndrome (no date). Pibloktoq Accessed June 18, 2012 from Culture-Bound Syndrome. (http://rjg42.tripod.com/culturebound_syndromes.htm)

What is Piblokto? (no date). Pibloktoq Accessed June 18, 2012 from wiseGEEK. (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-piblokto.htm)

Higgs, Rachel D. (2011) "Pibloktoq - A study of a culture-bound syndrome in the circumpolar region," The Macalester Review: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 3. Available at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macreview/vol1/iss1/3

Landy, D. (1985, February 21). Pibloktoq (hysteria) and inuit nutrition: possible implication of hypervitaminosis a.. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4049004 (By:Amanda Buck)

Maggie Baker- http://boingboing.net/2011/05/17/pibloktoq-psychology.html - Within a few hours, the person calms down. 

Dick, Lyle. (1995) "'Pibloktoq'(Artic Hysteria): A Construction of European-Inuit Relations?" Arctic Anthropology. Accessed June 25, 2012.(http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40316385?uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47699103514457) 

Pibloktoq is cultural specific to the Eskimos, espically the women of this culutre. This is a hysterical reaction where they perform irrationally or perform dangerous acts. This is then followed by amnesia. 'Symptoms for Pibloktoq include but are not limited to depression with silence, loss of consciousness, uncontrollable shacking, ripping of clothing, rolling in the snow, speaking in tongues or echoing others choice of words.' (Culture-Bound Syndrome)

'The syndrome has almost always appeared in adult-age men or women with no cases in children or elderly. It also seems to be more effident in the winter months in the cicumpolar region.' (Higss) 'Once the concept of Pibloktoq entered everyone's knowledge, it proved to be difficult to dislodge the knowledge of this syndrome in the culture.' (What is Piblokto?)

According to (Landy)(BY:Amanda Buck)- one possible theory for pibloktoq is hypervitaminosis A. The reason for this theory is due to an Eskimos diets providing an abundant of vitamin A, thus possibly leading to the vitamin being stored in poisonous quantities. ACCORDING TO http://thatthinline.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/10-unique-mental-disorders/ (By:Samantha Blackwood) It seems as though this might be caused by vitamin A toxicity, there have been other known westereners that have also demenostrated the same type of vitaim A toxicity.

This disorder, also known as "Arctic Hysteria," is thought be some to be a catch-all term under which European explorers categorized all Inuit anxiety reactions. Many of these anxiety reactions were in fact caused by the stress of early contact between Europeans and the Inuit (Dick).