The disorder was to become known as Ganser syndrome.

Ganser syndrome was in the past regarded to be a separate factitious disorder.

This condition occurs in Ganser syndrome and has been observed in prisoners awaiting trial.

Ganser syndrome was named after him.

He puffed up and told everybody I avoided prison with a Ganser syndrome - never mind, it's boring."

Ganser syndrome is a rare dissociative disorder previously classified as a factitious disorder.

Emedicine (discussion about Ganser Syndrome)

Diagnosing Ganser syndrome is very challenging, not only because some measure of dishonesty is involved but also because it is very rare.

Ganser syndrome is currently classified under dissociative disorders, to which it moved in the DSM IV from the factitious disorders.

Data indicate that some of the disorders that can convert to a pseudodementia-like presentation include depression, schizophrenia, mania, dissociative disorders, Ganser syndrome, conversion reaction, and psychoactive drugs (2).

While Kerouac sees his characters as "mad to live...desirous of everything at the same time," the reviewer likens them to cases of "psychosis that is a variety of Ganser Syndrome" who "aren't really mad-they only seem to be."

According to the DSM-IV-TR, which classifies Ganser syndrome as a dissociative disorder, it is "the giving of approximate answers to questions (e.g. '2 plus 2 equals 5' when not associated with dissociative amnesia or dissociative fugue)."

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When "On the Road" appeared in 1957, a reviewer in Time magazine diagnosed Kerouac's hero as suffering from "a prison psychosis that is a variety of the Ganser syndrome," according to which "the patient exaggerates his mood and feelings; he 'lets himself go' and gets himself into highly emotional states."

It is also sometimes called nonsense syndrome, balderdash syndrome, syndrome of approximate answers, pseudodementia, hysterical pseudodementia or prison psychosis.