How do get on the TODAY show

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How many saw this show. Seem like after one of being on the show they have a DX.

If we could ony do the same for PA.

Teen girls' medical mystery baffles doctors

Jan. 18 update: The day after TODAY reported on the baffling case of 12 teenage

girls at one school who mysteriously fell ill with Tourette's-like symptoms of

tics and verbal outbursts, a doctor who is treating some of the girls has come

forward to offer an explanation. Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist in Amherst,

N.Y., says the diagnosis is " conversion disorder, " or mass hysteria.

" It's happened before, all around the world, in different parts of the world.

It's a rare phenomena. Physicians are intrigued by it, " Mechtler told TODAY.

" The bottom line is these teenagers will get better. "

Tuesday on the show, psychologist and TODAY contributor Dr. Gail Saltz noted

that just because the girls' symptoms are psychological in origin doesn't make

them any less real or painful.

" That's not faking it. They're real symptoms, " Saltz continued. " They need a

psychiatric or psychological treatment. Treatment does work.''

Officials from the LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in upstate New York, where

all the girls attended when their symptoms began, have released environmental

reports, conducted by an outside agency, showing no substances in any of the

school buildings that could cause health problems.