and this goes on all day long, thera? >> yes.ll day long. >> reporter: this video was taken in the hospital in mid-october by thera's mother, soon after she brought her daughter in for twitching. it was on that day that a nurse told her thera wasn't the only one that had been brought to the hospital with a condition. >> she had said, not to alarm you, you know, but somebody needs to contact somebody, because you're the fourth girl in the week to come in with us. >> reporter: in all, health officials say 12 girls from le roy junior/senior high school had exhibited similar symptoms. they were fraught different grades and some didn't know each other, but many did, including thera's friend, lydia parker. >> the last time i went to a neurologist, they said they're not sure and they'll keep looking into it, but besides that they haven't told anyone anything. >> reporter: hundreds of parents met with health officials who said tests showed no evidence of any environmental factors at the school. more tests ruled out infection or communica

it didn't pass the sniff test for me, particularly some like thera, it seemed biological, didn't seeme a psychiatric event to me. my concern is they were being dismissed as conversion without things being completely and fully evaluated. many questions in my mind were left unanswered. i wanted to see to it resources were brought to bear to get to the bottom of it. there may be some with conversion out there. i'm convinced some have a biological problem. >> fascinating to watch the interview you did. one of the young women sitting there, her arm is moving a lot. the other young woman had what seemed to be a seizure. how common is that? is that related to what she is going through now? >> she and her mom reported she had an increase of this seizure-like event. while hooked up to an eeg brain way monitor and it did not confirm this was seizure. that means it's something called a fictitious seizure, which suggests it's something of a psychiatric nature but it doesn't confirm that. there could still be an underlying tick type syndrome merely flaring in a seizure-like activity. i thought the

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. >> thera's mom brought her daughter to the hospital after she started involuntary ticking after anon nap. since then the numbers have grown to 15 and all of them x except one, are girls. >> to the north of us here. >> over the weekend, the media craze surrounding the mystery grew when famous environmental activist erin brockovich sent one of her investigators to look for possible environmental causes. the team tested local groundwater samples for chemicals that they believe may be left over from a 1970 train derailment that spilled thousands of gallons of industrial solvent. both school and state health officials had already concluded a three-month investigation that determined no environmental or infectious agents could have caused the students' ticks. instead, local doctors who have examined 11 of the teens have determined the girls have a stress induced conversion disorder. it starts as a mental or emotional crisis. a scary or stressful incident of some kind and converts to a physical problem. >> i think -- >> some parents refuse to accept the causes are purely psychological. >>

they were from different grades and some didn't know each other, but some did, including thera's friend will keep looking into it. >> the school system has hired a company to review environmental testing of the school and community. meanwhile, erin brockovich says she thinks she knows what is causing the girls' problems. >> in 1971, there was a very serious train derailment that caused one ton of cyanide to spill and 45,000 gallons of tce. >> that's -- >> yes. >> is that what was in your movie? >> no. >> it's a well-known carcinogen. can it also cause these same kind of symptoms? >> i have read that it can be associated with neurological disorders. >> so here we have a train derailment 40 years ago. how does a train derailment 40 years ago -- nearby this school, near this community? how far away? >> the actual location of the site of the derailment is four miles from the school. >> four miles from the school. there's a massive train derailment with spectacular exposure of known carcinogens and toxins. how did that then become an issue for the high school? >> well, this is what we're loo

thera doesn't believe stress triggered her condition and her mother worries whether time is on her side>> she does not have time for i feel, or guesswork, or anything like that. she's deteriorating. >> i don't think this is in my head. i don't think i can wake up from a nap and this just happened. >> reporter: until doctors can do something, she hopes one day she'll just wake up and be herself again. jason carroll. >>> elizabeth cohen is joining us to talk about this mystery illness. i find it disturbing to see this story and i wonder if we have any idea of the cause behind this disorder, about there's something that brings all of these young girls together that they might be experiencing at this school. >> we've seen it at other schedu school. it happened in virginia. and conversion disorder is a fancy way of saying a physical manifestation of stress. i'm not making comparisons, but just to put it this 1i6r78 terms. a kid is worried about a math test and gets a stomach and i can. it's a similar kind of thing. and what they'll try to do with these girls is see what the stresses are in t