Volume 36 · Number 2
FEBRUARY 2006
Infections & Psychiatric Symptoms
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Intracranial pathology is considered an important segment of diseases affecting the brain. Beginning in the 19th Century and for many decades thereafter, organic brain pathology became obsolete and was replaced by functional illnesses involving parts of the cerebral structures associated with psychiatric conditions. Nevertheless, continuing advances in neuroscientific research have supported the relationship between certain infectious diseases and psychiatric presentations.
ABOUT THE GUEST EDITOR
Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, MD, is medical director, Bio-Behavioral Institute, Great Neck, NY, and professor, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. A biological psychiatrist and internist with more than 40 years of experience, he has pioneered research in the dopamine theory of schizophrenia and the serotonin theory of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr. Yaryura-Tobias has authored 15 books and presented or published more than 300 scientific papers and book chapters. He received his medical degree from the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and completed internships in Argentina, Canada, and the United States, originally specializing in internal medicine and later in biological psychiatry. He is also a member of numerous national and international societies and a founding member of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, the Argentine Society of Biological Psychiatry, the World Federation of Biological Psychiatry, and the Society of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. He is on the scientific advisory board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation and a consultant to the Bio-Behavioral Institute in Buenos Aires.
Looking for the Medical Needle in a Psychiatric Haystack
Jan Fawcett, 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
