uncinate fit

Japanese: uncinate fit(英語表記)uncinatefit
uncinate fit

...In Japan, the following three different states are expressed by the term dream state: (1) an epileptic seizure called an uncinate fit, (2) a psychotic state in atypical psychoses such as oneiroide Erlebnisform (German) or oneirophrenia (oneiroider Zustand), (3) onirisme (French) seen in symptomatic psychoses, organic psychoses, hallucinogens such as LSD and mescaline, high fever, hysteria, etc.
[Uncinate seizures]
This is a seizure that originates in the uncinate gyrus, an ancient cortex in the limbic system, and the dreamlike state was named the "dreamy state" by the British physician H. Jackson in 1890.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "uncinate fit" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…日本では次のように三つの異質の状態が夢幻状態という言葉で表されている。(1)鉤回(こうかい)発作uncinate fitと呼ばれる癲癇(てんかん)発作dreamy state,(2)夢幻様体験型oneiroide Erlebnisform(ドイツ語)とか夢幻精神病oneirophreniaなどの非定型な精神病における精神病状態oneiroider Zustand(ドイツ語),(3)症状精神病,器質精神病,LSDやメスカリンなどの幻覚剤,高熱,ヒステリーなどでみられる夢幻症onirisme(フランス語),である。
[鉤回発作]
 大脳辺縁系の鉤回という古皮質から起きる発作で,その夢幻状態を,1890年にイギリスのH.ジャクソンがdreamy stateと名づけた。…

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