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, …

Links

References

• BENEŠ, Jiří. Study materials  [online]. [feeling. 2010]. < http://jirben.wz.cz >.

Category :Psychiatry