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Secondary psychotic symptoms in a patient with biphasic meningo-encephalitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S Modell ,
G Kurtz ,
F Müller-Spahn  and
E Schmölz
S Modell
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich, Nuβbaumstr 7, 80336Munich, Germany
G Kurtz*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich, Nuβbaumstr 7, 80336Munich, Germany
F Müller-Spahn
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich, Nuβbaumstr 7, 80336Munich, Germany
E Schmölz
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Hospital, University of Munich, Nuβbaumstr 7, 80336Munich, Germany
*
*Correspondence and reprints.
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Summary

We report on the case of a patient who developed an acute meningitis and, after a period of about two weeks, without any neuropsychiatric problems, an acute paranoid-hallucinatory and catatonic syndrome. The symptomatology is discussed, in relation with the diagnostic difficulties of differentiating between a biphasic meningo-encephalitis with an organic psychosis or a first manifestation of an endogenous psychosis.

Keywords

meningo-encephalitissymptomatic psychosisparanoid-hallucinatory syndromecatatonic syndromeschizophrenic psychosis
Type
Rapid communication
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , 1993 , pp. 325 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1993

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