Symptomatic mental disorders in infectious and internal diseases


 * broad framework – the so-called acute exogenous reaction type (ERT),
 * the brain responds to damage relatively uniformly, regardless of the agent,
 * ERT includes – delirium, paranoid or paranoid hallucinatory syndrome, amnestic syndrome , stupor and epiletoform paroxysms,
 * the tenth revision of the ICD simply divides into delusional states ( F05 ) and other mental disorders ( F06 ) and personality and behavior disorder ( F07 ),
 * a link between the symptom and the infection must be demonstrated.

Infectious diseases

 * some diseases are known for not causing psychopathological symptoms – scurvy, tetanus, botulism, flatulence.

Bacterial diseases

 * typhus abdominalis – apathy, stupor, delirium,
 * Legionnaires' disease - sometimes delirium,
 * Weil's disease – delirium, sometimes bleeding into the CNS,
 * Lyme disease - encephalomyelitis,
 * typhus exanthemicus – delirium, double hallucination.

Viral diseases

 * flu - tiredness,
 * measles - complications - encephalitis, can leave dementia,
 * rabies – psychomotor restlessness, anxiety,
 * tick-borne encephalitis – delirium, varying degrees of quantitative disorders of consciousness, disorders of attention, memory, hypobulia, emotional lability,
 * hepatitis – fatigue, malaise, inability to concentrate, depression,
 * AIDS – dementia, concentration disorders,
 * CJD.

Parasites

 * malaria – qualitative disorder of consciousness, restlessness, aggression, amok,
 * sleeping sickness – delirium, apathy, somnolence, dementia, cachexia,
 * toxoplasmosis - congenital - microcephaly, mental retardation.

Internal diseases

 * cardiac failure – anxiety states, delirium to paranoid hallucinatory syndrome,
 * severe liver lesions – confusion, impaired consciousness, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatic coma,
 * acute pancreatitis - agitation
 * chronic pancreatitis - tendency to depression
 * kidney failure – fatigue, exhaustion, depression,
 * pulmonary - tuberculosis - euphoric mood, asthma - anxiety,
 * tumors - depression, cachexia - confusion,
 * dehydration – fatigue, despondency, confusion, delirium,
 * Wilson's disease – personality changes, intellectual deterioration,
 * more – SLE, porphyria, …