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Sub-Acute Encephalitis: Behavioural and Neurological Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jonathan Himmelhoch ,
Jonathan Pincus ,
Gary Tucker  and
Thomas Detre
Jonathan Himmelhoch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Tale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06510; Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Jonathan Pincus
Affiliation:
Section of Neurology, Tale University School of Medicine
Gary Tucker
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Psychiatric Inpatient Division, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Thomas Detre
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; Yale-New Haven Hospital
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Behavioural symptoms suggestive of the so-called functional psychiatric disorders are often observed during the course of sub-acute or chronic encephalitides, particularly sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis. This has been regarded as an invariably fatal neurological illness, but Cobb et al. (1) have recently presented two non-fatal cases and have drawn attention to rare scattered reports of others, some with behavioural disorders. We have therefore made a survey of cases of sub-acute encephalitis at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, especially noting their behavioural aspects.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 534 , May 1970 , pp. 531 - 538
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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