Volume 36 · Number 2
FEBRUARY 2006
Looking for the Medical Needle in a Psychiatric Haystack
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This month’s issue of Psychiatric Annals, guest edited by Dr. Jose Yaryura-Tobias, is focused on infectious diseases that are known or hypothesized to result in neuropsychiatric syndromes. Provided here is valuable information on infectious processes that can masquerade as “functional” psychiatric syndromes. In addition, interesting data are presented concerning various autoimmune mechanisms underlying some cases of schizophrenia. It reminds me of the fairly recent finding of the role of infectious agents in gastric or duodenal ulcer disease. Who would have thought that? And what about the possibility of chronic infectious origins of coronary artery disease?
Infections & Psychiatric Symptoms
Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, MD
A 52-year-old Man With Long-term Recurrent Depression
Intracranial Infective Pathology in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, MD;
Fugen Neziroglu, PhD, ABBP, ABPP
Infectious Diseases in the Manifestation of Pathological Symptom Expression
Matthew D. Jacofsky, PsyD;
Merry McVey-Noble, PhD;
Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, MD
Novel Insight into Neuroimmunogenic Factors in the Etiology of Schizophrenia
Tania Borda, PhD;
Leonor Sterin-Borda, MD, PhD
Obsessive-compulsive Spectrum Disorders and Rheumatic Fever
Ana G. Hounie, MD, PhD;
Marcos T. Mercadante, MD, PhD;
Pedro G. Alvarenga, MD;
Aline S. Sampaio, MD;
Anita Taub, MSc;
Euripedes C. Miguel, MD, PhD
Lyme Borreliosis: Neuropsychiatric Aspects and Neuropathology
Brian A. Fallon, MD;
Benjamin J. Vaccaro;
Megan Romano, BA;
Maria D. Clemente, MA
