RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Case report of the treatment and experience of mental disorders due to chronic viral encephalitis
JF General Psychiatry
JO Gen Psych
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e100340
DO 10.1136/gpsych-2020-100340
VO 34
IS 1
A1 Mingming Zheng
A1 Ran Bi
A1 Yezhe Lin
A1 Cuizhen Zhu
A1 Daomin Zhu
YR 2021
UL http://gpsych.bmj.com/content/34/1/e100340.abstract
AB Viral encephalitis is a common clinical condition. Its clinical manifestations are variable and include neurological symptoms and psychiatric abnormalities, which makes clinical diagnosis and treatment difficult. To date, there are only a few reported cases on mental symptoms of chronic viral encephalitis. We present a case of a 16-year-old male patient who was previously hospitalised and diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated with aripiprazole 15 mg/day but failed to respond. The patient was then given antiviral therapy and recovered after 2 weeks. Clinicians should be aware of the possbility that chronic mental disorders could be caused by viral encephalitis. In the future, diagnosis of chronic functional mental disorders should include viral encephalitis in the differential diagnosis.