Cases diagnosed as general paralysis of insane at the psychiatric services of NIMHANS for 23 years from 1955 to 1977 were studied to analyse the trends of age distribution, sex proportion, annual admission rate and clinical categories. It was found that the mean age and the proportion of females did not show any impressive change during these years.Among the clinical categories the simple demen...

People who have epilepsy seem particularly liable to certain major psychiatric disorders: a chronic interictal psychosis that closely resembles schizophrenia; and episodic psychotic states, some of which may arise in close temporal relation with seizure activity. These disorders are conventionally referred to as the psychoses of epilepsy although some of the episodic forms would be more accurat...

CONTEXT We briefly reviewed the evidence on the association of hepatitis C (HCV) infection with several aspects of mental and psychosocial health. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Medline was searched with appropriate keywords. The primary sources were the systematic reviews. If systematic reviews were not available for a subject, then the most relevant and methodologically sound original studies were se...

have been hypothesized, and these large multimers of von Willebrand molecules have been shown to clump platelets in vitro. The neurological manifestations of TTP are diverse, but in most instances an acute confusional state, seizures, transient hemiparesis, and stupor predominate.' The clinicoanatomic correlation in patients with decreased levels of consciousness alone is problematic but may be...

AIM Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) is a serious treatment-resistant phenotype of systemic lupus erythematosus. A standard treatment for NPSLE is not available. This report describes the clinical and laboratory tests of 10 patients with NPSLE before and after rituximab treatment, including changes in lymphocyte phenotypes. METHODS Rituximab was administered at different ...

Many elderly patients with organic brain syndrome are admitted to psychiatric hospitals, where they make up approximately 30 per cent of the resident popu lation (Ballinger et a!, 1981). The psychiatric in patients are a selected group and most demented people are in the community (Kay et al, 1964) and other hospitals. Most patients are diagnosed as suffering fromsenile orarteriosclerotic demen...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of our study is to describe 4 cases of sexsomnia, a form of parasomnia characterised by sexual behaviour during sleep. METHODS Clinical history and video-polysomnography recordings from patients diagnosed with sexsomnia in the Multidisciplinary Sleep Unit at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. RESULTS Three men and one woman between 28 and 43 years of age reported sexual ...

A 63-year-otd former longshoreman was admitted to the hospital after the sudden onset of confusion , agitation, and hallucinations. One year before, the patient, who had a history of exposure to asbestos, cigarette smoking, and alcohol abuse, had presented with back pain . At that time he had a pulmonary infiltrate in the right upper lobe. He apparently was lost to follow-up until 5 months tate...

People who have epilepsy seem particularly liable to certain major psychiatric disorders: a chronic interictal psychosis that closely resembles schizophrenia; and episodic psychotic states, some of which may arise in close temporal relation with seizure activity. These disorders are conventionally referred to as the psychoses of epilepsy although some of the episodic forms would be more accurat...

Delirium, or acute confusional syndrome, is a set of symptoms whose care involves not only psychiatry, but also many other medical specialties. Being as how the syndrome is caused by multiple factors, it is important to recognize each risk factor affecting the patient in order to anticipate and prevent it. In case of diagnosis, identifying and treating the root cause that triggered is important...