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This syndrome is found among Portuguese Cape Verde Islanders (and immigrants from there to the United States) and includes pain, numbness, tremor, paralysis, convulsions, stroke, blindness, heart attack, infection, and miscarriage.
DSM-IV-TR[1]
Sangue dormido (lit. 'sleeping blood') is a psychological syndrome reportedly affecting Cape Verdeans and members of the Cape Verdean diaspora. The condition appears in Appendix I of the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as a culture-bound syndrome.
- ^ American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. p. 902. ISBN 978-0-89042-025-6.