Social phobia secondary to pathological sweating.
An individual with agenesis of the corpus callosum associated with recurrent severe sweating and hypothermia developed a social phobia. Phobias may be adaptations to real and potentially dangerous physiological events.
Edlund
M J
MJ
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence 02903.
D000328:Adult; D061085:Agenesis of Corpus Callosum; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012918:Social Alienation; D013546:Sweating