Pa'nar syndrome
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- Vulcan neurological disorder (ENT: "Stigma")
- Result of improperly performed mind melds disrupting the neuroelectric impulses in the Vulcan midbrain (ENT: "Kir'Shara")
- Contagious, in that one affected by Pa'nar syndrome is likely to impose the damage on another during the meld inadvertently (ENT: "Stigma")
- Causes degradation of synaptic pathways in the midbrain, leading to damage to the endocrine and immune systems (ENT: "Kir'Shara")
- Survivable for years, but eventually terminal if untreated (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- Damage can be easily corrected through a trained adept at the mind meld technique (ENT: "Kir'Shara")
- Knowledge of the cure suppressed during the period of melder stigma in Vulcan society from the 20th to 22nd centuries (ENT: "Kir'Shara")
- Largely abolished by 2165 following the lifting of the stigma against melders in the 2150s following the recovery of the Kir'shara (ENT: "Daedalus"; ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)