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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Emotions > Anxiety > Anxiety, Castration > Koro

Preferred term

Koro  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Genital Retraction Syndrome
  • Genital Retraction Syndromes
  • Koro Syndrome
  • Koro Syndromes
  • Syndrome, Genital Retraction
  • Syndrome, Koro

Note

  • a depersonalization disorder; do not confuse with KURU, a neurological disorder; specify ethnic group if pertinent; check tag MALE

Scope note

  • A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the Malay people and Southern Chinese. The syndrome is characterized by the individual's sudden experience of depersonalization depicted by the belief that his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and that he will die when this occurs. Although generally classified as a culture-specific syndrome, koro may be no more than a variant of castration anxiety (ANXIETY, CASTRATION) as it has been described in non-Asian patients.

History note

  • 92

In other languages

  • koro

    Finnish

  • koro-sairaus
  • koro-tauti
  • Koro

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016911

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