Ep 4 Dancing Queen and Suffering Bastard: November Rain, Choreomania | Dancing Plagues, Neurological Disorders, and Suicide

Medical Media Mixer Podcast – Dancing Plagues, November Rain & Choreomania 💃🎶🧠🍹 Medical Media Mixer is your go-to health and wellness podcast, shaken with cocktails and stirred with entertainment and media. In this episode, we connect music, medicine, and history through two unforgettable songs and their deeper cultural impact: 🎸 November Rain by Guns N’ Roses – exploring love, loss, grief, and the public health conversation around suicide awareness and prevention. 🎶 Choreomania by Florence + the Machine – inspired by the bizarre history of the dancing plagues, mass psychogenic illness, and movement disorders. And of course, we mix it all up with our Cocktails of the Week: 🍇 Dancing Queen cocktail – bright, fruity, and playful. 🥃 Suffering Bastard cocktail – a historic blend created as a hangover cure with a surprising backstory. 💃 Choreomania & Dancing Plagues BBC – The people who danced themselves to death History.com – Dancing plague of 1518 Britannica – Dancing plague of 1518 PubMed – Historical perspectives on choreomania Public Domain Review – The dancing plague Tarantella folk dance ScienceDirect – Ergotism & mass dancing outbreaks NCBI – Neurological disease connections Related Neurological & Psychiatric Topics Ergot poisoning | PMC Research Levodopa-induced dyskinesia Huntington’s disease Sydenham chorea Mass psychogenic illness | PMC Article Tardive dyskinesia Mirror neurons 🎸 November Rain & Suicide Awareness Lyrics – Guns N’ Roses AFSP – Suicide statistics CDC 2022 suicide & gun violence report SPRC – Resources for survivors of suicide loss 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 📚 Podcast & Song References Songfacts – Choreomania 🌐 Connect With Us 🎧 Podcast website: Medical Media Mixer 📱 Social Media Hub: Linktree Episodes every Monday ⭐️ Subscribe, Rate and Review! 🍸 Recipes drop on socials Discounts: 15% off Comfrt apparel Purple Carrot: 40% off your first box ClassPass: 2 weeks free 15% off non-alcoholic spirits at The Zero Proof 💳 Support us on Patreon | ☕️ Buy Me a Coffee Contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.