Cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders in extrapyramidal diseases

Neuropsychiatric disorders and renal diseases: an update.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms are frequently associated to renal dysfunction and may compromise negatively the clinical course as well as the quality of life, and the functional status of the patients. The neuropsychiatric disorders associated with renal disease may present various forms according to the natural history of the disease, and remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. There are few data ...

Gut Microbiota and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

MicroRNA dysregulation in neuropsychiatric disorders and cognitive dysfunction.

MicroRNAs (miRNA), a class of non-coding RNAs, are emerging as important modulators of neuronal development, structure and function. A connection has been established between abnormalities in miRNA expression and miRNA-mediated gene regulation and psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders as well as cognitive dysfunction. Establishment of this connection has been driven by progress in elucid...

Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Dr Bransfield is associate director of psychiatry at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ. Psychiatrists interested in joining the Microbes and Mental Illness Discussion Group may e-mail the author at [email protected]. He is President Elect of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. The author reports that he is on the Speakers' Bureau of Abbott, AstraZeneca, Cephalon,...

Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Many recall the phrase "To know syphilis is to know medicine." Now Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis), the new "great imitator,"1 is the ultimate challenge to the breadth and depth of our knowledge. In psychiatry, we generally treat mental symptoms or syndromes rather than the underlying cause of a disorder. A greater awareness of immune reactions to infections and other contributors to mental ill...