Möbius Symptom

Mobius symptom -

Anomaly or pathological skill?

Typically, a person who has a Mobius symptom is described as someone who has no difficulty expressing his or her attitude towards various situations and events, and thus takes part in conversations and social interactions without assistance. However, the ability

Moebius Symptom

Moebius symptom is the general name for two clinically observable signs of damage to the central nervous system: 1) detected in the acute period of ischemic stroke with damage to the internal capsule, characterized by increased pain sensitivity, loss of proprioceptive and other sensations, paresis of the lower extremities; 2) cognitive syndrome.

The first clinical descriptions of the symptom were made in the 19th century by the German neurologist Paul Johannes Moebius (Pavel Aleksandrovich Weisbrem (Weisbrem., 1840-1879), Mobius’s student and assistant), who discovered observation. In this case, the auditory analyzer is pathologically loaded to a significant extent, as a result of which hearing deteriorates under the influence of physical factors of varying intensity. Mobius also designated this phenomenon as the Mobius reflex, the heterophonic vision reflex, the antibiological reaction, the Ranke phenomenon, as well as the biological reaction to noise.

The first sign of symptom manifestation is the appearance of a homophonic rhythm in impaired hearing, with a volume of over 50 dB for a person without mental disorders, which increases as hearing loss is compensated and becomes pronounced with average hearing loss, when the patient simply cannot talk to an interlocutor, even speak loudly “Ahhhh”, even 5 words in a row. He does not feel a complete loss of auditory function; upon examination, split words are detected; the patient experiences difficulty reading books or understanding the spoken language of an interlocutor at a distance of less than 25 cm. In some cases, dizziness is observed