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==History== Case reports of EHS have been published since at least 1876, which [[Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)|Silas Weir Mitchell]] described as "sensory discharges" in a patient.<ref name="Sharpless2015">{{cite journal | author = Sharpless BA | year = 2015 | title = Exploding head syndrome is common in college students | journal = Journal of Sleep Research | volume = 24| issue = 4| pages = 447–9| doi = 10.1111/jsr.12292 | pmid = 25773787 | s2cid = 34157227 }}</ref> However, it has been suggested that the earliest written account of EHS was described in the biography of the French philosopher [[René Descartes]] in 1691.<ref name="Otaiku2018">{{cite journal | author = Otaiku AI | year = 2018 | title = Did René Descartes have Exploding Head Syndrome? | journal = J. Clin. Sleep Med. | volume = 14| issue = 4| pages = 675–8| doi = 10.5664/jcsm.7068 | pmid = 29609724 | pmc = 5886445 }}</ref> The phrase "snapping of the brain" was coined in 1920 by the British physician and psychiatrist [[Robert Armstrong-Jones]].<ref name=Sharpless2015/> A detailed description of the syndrome and the name "exploding head syndrome" was given by British neurologist [[John M. Pearce|John M. S. Pearce]] in 1989.<ref name=torpy_plazzi2010>{{cite book |vauthors=Thorpy MJ, Plazzi G |page=231 |title=The Parasomnias and Other Sleep-Related Movement Disorders |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCh5vsI4AjcC&pg=PA231 |access-date=2011-03-18 |isbn=978-0-521-11157-7 }}</ref> More recently, [[Peter Goadsby]] and Brian Sharpless have proposed renaming EHS "episodic cranial sensory shock"<ref name=Go2015 >{{Cite journal|last1=Goadsby|first1=Peter J.|last2=Sharpless|first2=Brian A.|date=2016-11-01|title=Exploding head syndrome, snapping of the brain or episodic cranial sensory shock?|url=http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/87/11/1259|journal=J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry|language=en|volume=87|issue=11|pages=1259–1260|doi=10.1136/jnnp-2015-312617|issn=0022-3050|pmid=26833175|s2cid=30697559|url-access=subscription}}</ref> as it describes the symptoms more accurately and better attributes to Mitchell.
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