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Ramsay Hunt Syndrome with Mental Disorder
Author(s) -
Hori Takafumi,
Mizukami Katsuyoshi,
Suzuki Toshihito,
Sakuma Kenichi,
Baba Atsuomi,
Tanaka Yoshiro,
Shiraishi Hiroyasu,
Koizumi Junzo
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1991.tb00527.x
Subject(s) - psychology , delusion , myoclonus , dementia praecox , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , auditory hallucination , paranoia , psychosis , ramsay hunt syndrome , disinhibition , bipolar disorder , medicine , cognition , alternative medicine , pathology , palsy
Abstract: This is a case of Ramsay Hunt syndrome with mental disorder. The patient had action myoclonus, grand mal seizure and severe cerebellar ataxia. Schizophrenia‐like symptoms including delusion of persecution and self‐reference, auditory hallucination and incoherence were characteristically observed before the neurological disturbance became manifest. Subsequently, euphoria, disinhibition, moria and mild dementia appeared with neurological symptoms. The possibility of Ramsay Hunt syndrome to accompany organic mental syndromes and the relationship between cerebellar dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms are discussed.