Tourette-like mass sociogenic illness
A recent article highlighted an outbreak of a mass sociogenic illness (MSI) of Tourette-like symptoms spread solely through social media, a mass social media-induced illness (MSMI), see mass sociogenic illness brain2021 in dropbox, or orcid.org/0000-0002-7181-7419 Details: --this report was from a specialized Tourette outpatient clinic in Hanover Medical School in Germany, revealing a large number of young people across different countries having a “Tourette-like” MSMI outbreak -- a German YouTube channel, launched by 22-year-old Jan Zimmermann (who has a mild form of Tourette syndrome), depicts countless numbers of movements, vocalizations, words, phrases, and bizarre behavior that Zimmermann claims are tics -- his YouTube channel spread rapidly on social media, reaching 1 million subscribers in less than three months, making Zimmermann the second most successful YouTube creator in Germany in 2019. Currently subscriptions are 2.23 million people and 296 videos have been released t