Revisiting an old foe: The face of psychosis in neurosyphilis.

Neurosyphilis with psychotic symptoms and Parkinsonism in a young girl

A 15-year-old girl with neurosyphilis was misdiagnosed as having viral encephalitis with psychotic symptoms and Parkinsonism. We found that she was experiencing visual hallucinations, persecutory delusions, flattening of affect, poorness of thought, tremors, four-limb rigidity, and restlessness, and she was unable to communicate with others. The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory serum test a...

Psychosis as an Early Presentation of Neuro-Brucellosis

Brucellosis is an endemic zoonotic infectious disease in Middle East countries including Iran. This infection may involve central nervous system. Psychosis has been reported in rare cases with chronic brucellosis.A 26-year-old male shepherd patient who developed neuro-brucellosis and psychosis is presented. He had hallucinations (visual and auditory) and delusions. He was also impulsive and had...

Donizetti and the music of mental derangement: Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, and the composer's neurobiological illness.

The composer Gaetano Donizetti, who died in a state of mental derangement due to neurosyphilis, created some of opera's greatest scenes of psychosis. His letters reveal the clinical progression of his neurobiological illness, which was confirmed by autopsy. One can hypothesize that the composer's brain disease, which led to his psychosis and death, may have had an influence on his ability to cr...

Tertiary Syphilis Presenting as Manic Depressive Psychosis

With the advent of Penicillin, tertiary manifestations of syphilis have become a rarity, while atypical forms are often encountered. Usually the form of neurosyphilis seen by psychiatrists is General Paresis of the Insane (GPI) and Taboparesis. Unlike the grandiose forms seen earlier, the cases of GPI today present with a dementic picture (Dewhurst, 1969; Hahn, 1959). We report a case where Ter...

Revisiting Quotes from Educational Perspective: An Inquiry into the Multifarious Applications of Grand Quotes in English Language Pedagogy