Psychiatric manifestations of encephalitis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Encephalitis is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition of infectious or autoimmune cause. We aim to characterize the frequency and clinical spectrum of presenting psychiatric symptoms in encephalitis in order to inform earlier recognition and initiation of treatment.

Methods

This was a retrospective study of adult patients who met the 2013 International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC) and/or 2016 Graus criteria between February 2005 and February 2023. The study included two hospital systems in Houston, Texas, and Baltimore, Maryland and included a total of 642 patients. Psychiatric manifestations were grouped into five high-level categories: behavior, psychosis, mood, sleep disturbances, and catatonia.

Results

In our cohort of 642 patients, 318 (

SUBMITTER: Bean P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822797 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature