Bendii Syndrome

Bendii Syndrome was a very rare degenerative neurological illness affecting Vulcans over the age of two hundred.
The early symptoms of the disease included sudden bursts of emotion, often irrational anger, and eventually all emotional control would be lost. Diagnosis was made by tissue samples taken from the patient's metathalamus, though the results of this test took several days to arrive.
A dangerous side effect of Bendii Syndrome was that the loss of emotional control could be telepathically projected to others. Vulcans were able to resist the emotional projections, but if the afflicted person was in the presence of non-Vulcans, the emotions could cause outbreaks of anger and violence. An attending Vulcan telepath could keep these projections under control, but when the sufferer was particularly stressed, the side effect could overwhelm such efforts. 
According to Perrin, Bendii Syndrome was considered more a folk tale than a disease by 2366, with no case having been diagnosed since at least 2165.
Ambassador Sarek was afflicted with Bendii Syndrome at the age of 201, and his struggle with the condition ended two years later in 2368, when he died. ()
In 2381, Lieutenant jg T'Lyn cited Bendii Syndrome as an example of a condition that could produce involuntary telepathic projections, such as those affecting the crew. However, she noted that this condition usually affected the elderly, whereas she was only 62 years of age. Lieutenant jg Beckett Mariner proposed that perhaps she was undergoing a "quarter-life crisis" that was causing similar symptoms. The telepathic projections ceased after T'Lyn resolved the source of her emotional turmoil. ()
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