Bendii syndrome

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Bendii Syndrome is a degenerative neurological illness very rarely affecting Vulcans over the age of two hundred.


Early symptoms of the disease include sudden bursts of emotion (often irrational anger), and eventually all emotional control would be lost. Diagnosis was made by culturing tissue samples taken from a portion of the patient's brain, though the results of this test can take several days.


A dangerous side effect of Bendii Syndrome was that the loss of emotional control could be telepathically projected onto 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.


Example:

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.