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These conditions may sound like fiction, but they're very real... Article: 10 Bizarre Medical Conditions http://health.howstuffworks.com/disea... What the Stuff?! episodes are available every Monday and Friday at Noon ET. Subscribe http://bit.ly/1AWgeM7 Twitter   / howstuffworks   Facebook   / howstuffworks   Google+ https://plus.google.com/+howstuffworks Website http://www.howstuffworks.com Watch More    / howstuffworks   Music Attribution: "Not Today Once Again" by Jahzzar http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jah... Video Attribution: Teen Wolf (1985) Digital Trailer    • Teen Wolf (1985) Digital Trailer   Electric Six - “Danger! High Voltage”    • Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage" (Hi ...   Image Attribution: Barbara Vanbeck, a very hairy woman http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil... There’s a lot we don’t know about how our brains and bodies work – or sometimes don’t work as expected. These conditions may sound like fiction, but they’re very real, if very rare: Foreign Accent Syndrome: After surviving a stroke or traumatic brain injury, very few people find themselves speaking with a strange new accent. Foreign Accent Syndrome is caused by damage to parts of the brain that control and coordinate the muscles used in speech. It changes the way you pronounce vowels and consonants, positions your tongue differently, and shifts the rhythms of your words. It’s not that you’ve actually adopted a specific dialect – you’ll have traces of a few different accents, and listeners may pick out whatever’s strongest or most familiar. Speech therapy can help, but no known cure exists. Werewolf Syndrome: No, this one doesn’t cause you to howl at the moon, and it won’t make you better at high school sports. Werewolf Syndrome – properly called hypertrichosis - is the overproduction of hair. It can affect your whole body or just isolated spots, and anyone – men, women, babies, and adults alike – can experience it. In babies, it’s the result of a genetic mutation: The fine, soft hair that covers a fetus continues to grow instead of shedding before birth as per the usual. It may develop later in life due to your body’s reactions to hormone imbalances, anabolic steroids, or other medications. Cotard’s Syndrome: This psychological disorder is diagnosed along with depression or other conditions, but it has a striking symptom of its own: Your belief that you are dead, or that some parts of your body are missing or rotting. First described in 1880 by Dr. Jules Cotard, this delusion doesn’t always affect your speech, movement, or other behavior. But you’ll insist that you’re dead, which gives the disorder its colloquial name: Walking Corpse Syndrome. Treatments include the standards for extreme depression and delusion, like psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder: Sometimes called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome or Restless Genital Syndrome, this physical disorder causes uncontrollable, painfully intense genital stimulation in women, independent of sexual desire and purposeful contact. As little as the vibration of a moving car can set off hours of life-stopping sensation. Sexual contact or orgasm don’t help – they aggravate the symptoms. Researchers aren’t sure why it happens or how to stop it, but some suggest that it’s related to varicose veins and restless leg syndrome. That’s all the bizarre medical stuff we have time for today, but to learn more, like how mosquitoes spread elephantiasis, check out our article 10 Bizarre Medical Conditions on HowStuffWorks.com. And hey, if you dug this video, go on and hit Like, and subscribe so you won’t miss our next one.