Claupfer's Disease

Claupfer's disease is a rather successful cinematographic move, although it attracted attention not so much to the TV series "Univer", as to the all-powerful global Internet. Cinema is in principle designed to shape our worldview with the help of myths, so, quite recently, many sincerely believed about the possibility of programming by the 25th frame, which later turned out to be a frank invention. However, while the myth was uncovered by many experts in the field of politics, advertising, the medical world have made whole states on this belief. It suffices to recall the coding of many kinds of dependencies with the help of a "mythical" frame, which is supposedly not perceived by the brain on a conscious level, but is well absorbed by the subconscious. The obvious influence of television, along with cinematography, continues to shape the lives of many gullible spectators. Series of medical subjects, except for purely entertaining effects, sometimes provoke especially impressionable people to search for non-existent diseases. So, the American researchers recorded an increase in applications for medical help after watching the next season of the series "Doctor House."

The Russian TV series "Univer" is not a sitcom dedicated to medicine, however it caused a wave of interest in the mysterious disease that the hero named Kuzya invented as a false diagnosis. The disease Claupfer just exploded the search engines last fall. People searched for a description of the disease, the symptoms, possible consequences and ways of healing from this disease. The forty-seventh series of the series became a real trigger, triggering the alarm of Novosibirsk citizens, Krasnoyarsk residents and residents of other Siberian cities. Paradoxically, statistics showed an unprecedented interest in the illness of Claupfer from the Russians living in Siberia, in other regions people were also interested in mythical disease, but much less.

According to the plot of the series Kuzya, fabricated a fake reference, became in the eyes of his friends a mortally sick young man, as Clauppher's disease according to the invention of writers is incurable. Moreover, in response to persistent search requests, long-awaited answers, often of sarcastic content, apparently emanating from pseudoscientific sources, also appeared. Kloupfer's disease was termed deadly and belonged to the category of neurodegenerative diseases, and it was stated in the text that mostly young and middle-aged people, who are sedentary and who "sit" at the computer, get sick with this disease.

By the way, neurodegenerative diseases are indeed serious, severe pathologies, which are provoked by a decrease in the number of certain neurons and changes in the metabolism of neurotransmitters. As a rule, such diseases are multinousological, that is, developing, affect many organs and systems. The onset of neurodegenerative diseases is observed at a young age, but the disease is asymptomatic and has no obvious clinical manifestations. This latent period lasts for decades, and the disease begins to progress, when the protective and compensatory functions of the body weaken, that is, in old age. Neurodegenerative diseases are senile dementia described by Alzheimer's psychiatrist, and since then so-called Alzheimer's disease. Also included in the list are Parkinson's disease, cerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic sclerosis and other diseases of degenerative etiology.

Clauppher's disease is not included in this list and, obviously, will never fall. Although it is natural for a person to believe in many myths emanating from the media, it is quite possible that this "cinematic" disease will also give the name of a new disease, which is characterized by total credulity and total lack of common sense. Moreover, the author (scriptwriter and producer) of the series is Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov, who has already tried to joke like this in another popular TV series "Interns". However, then his fictitious diagnosis of "tropical hemangioma Movsesyan" caused only laughter, and not a wave of search requests. But the series continues to be removed, and the imagination of the former doctor Dusmukhametov, apparently inexhaustible, new diagnoses ahead.