The name chorea is of Latin origin and means “possession”, “melancholy”, “fever”. This is how one of the types of manias was historically called. But of all the types of classic non-Alexinian choreic syndrome, it is still preferable to leave the name choreic mania. Because chorea belongs to the category of manic syndromes, of which psychopathologists sometimes consider mania, following Eugene L. Morton Lewis, on a par with some varieties of schizophrenia and affective depressive diseases. Chorea is usually caused by a specific physiological process or location of the disease.
Chorea is more common