An infection can change your personality --there's plenty of proof

Infections can alter behavior --here's the proof.

Pamela Weintraub in Emerging Diseases

In the past couple of weeks I've posted about the debate over Lyme disease as a trigger for violence.Can microbes and  immune reactions to them actually contribute to cognitive decline, degenerative neurological disease, developmental disabilities, mental illness, personality changes and, at the most extreme, even violent and criminal behavior?
Here to weigh in with some evidence is psychiatrist Robert Bransfield, an expert on the psychiatric manifestions of Lyme disease and founder of the mailing list, Microbes and Mental Illness, where the discussions on such topics are held.
"There are several thousand peer-reviewed references demonstrating the association between infections and mental symptoms and at least 65 different microbes have been recognized as causing mental symptoms," Bransfield writes.  "Over two hundred peer-reviewed articles describe the causal association between Lyme/tick-borne diseases and mental symptoms, pathophysiology, morbidity and mortality. Attempted suicide and completed suicide associated with neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disease has been observed and reported by many other clinicians and myself." 

Bransfield's work has focussed, in part, on infection and aggresion. "Although most patients with Lyme/tick-borne disease do not become violent, a small percent of patients who become infected develop a type of neurological dysfunction that can increase their risk of aggressiveness. In working with a number of patients with Lyme/tick-borne diseases it is apparent to many clinicians these conditions can cause reduced frustration tolerance, irritability, depression, cognitive impairments and mood swings, but more significantly, in a few patients, suicidal and aggressive tendencies."

For the doubters on the issue, Bransfield refers to his own website,Mental Health and Illness, and has provided peer-reviewed publications that offer not just theory but also nuance, complexity, and proof. With his permission, I list some of those, below.-- Pamela Weintraub (author ofCure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic and senior editor at Discover Magazine.)

Microbes and mental illness: The evidence in black and white

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis [letter] AUTHORS:Fallon BA, Nields JA.
SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1998 Summer;10(3):366-7
Acute and chronic neuroborreliosis with and without CNS involvement: a clinical, MRI, and HLA study of 27 cases.AUTHORS: Krüger H, Heim E, Schuknecht B, Scholz S.SOURCE: J Neurol. 1991 Aug;238(5):271-80.
Altered mental status, an unusual manifestation of early disseminated Lyme disease: A case report. AUTHORS:Chabria SB, Lawrason J. SOURCE: J Med Case Reports. 2007 Aug 9;1:62.
The association between tick-borne infections, Lyme borreliosis and autism spectrum disorders AUTHORS:Bransfield RC, Wulfman JS, Harvey WT, Usman AI.
SOURCE: Medical Hypotheses. 5 Nov 2007
Alzheimer's disease Braak Stage progressions: reexamined and redefined as Borrelia infection transmission through neural circuits. AUTHOR: MacDonald AB. SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(5):1059-64. Epub 2006 Nov 17.
Alzheimer's neuroborreliosis with trans-synaptic spread of infection and neurofibrillary tangles derived from intraneuronal spirochetes. AUTHOR: MacDonald AB.SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2007;68(4):822-5. Epub 2006 Oct 20.
Antibodies against OspA epitopes of Borrelia burgdorferi cross-react with neural tissue. AUTHORS: Alaedini A, Latov N. SOURCE: J Neuroimmunol. 2005 Feb;159(1-2):192-5. Epub 2004 Nov 26.
Audiologic manifestations of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome AUTHORS: Shotland LI, Mastrioanni MA, Choo DL, Szymko-Bennett YM, Dally LG, Pikus AT, Sledjeski K, Marques A  SOURCE: Ear Hear. 2003 Dec;24(6):508-17
Bartonella sp. Bacteremia in Patients with Neurological and Neurocognitive Dysfunction. AUTHORS: Journal of Clinical Midrobiology. 46(9):2856–2861 SOURCE: Breitschwerdt EB. Maggi RG, Nicholson WL, Cherry NA, Woods CW.
The basic syndromes of neurological disorders in Lyme borreliosis: AUTHORS: Dekonenko EP, Umanskii KG, Virich IE, Kupriianova LV, Rudometov, IuP, Bagrov FI: SOURCE:Ter Arkh 1995; 67 (11) : 52-53
Beta-amyloid deposition and Alzheimer's type changes induced by Borrelia spirochetes. AUTHORS: Miklossy J, Kis A, Radenovic A, Miller L, Forro L, Martins R, Reiss K, Darbinian N, Darekar P, Mihaly L, Khalili K. SOURCE:Neurobiol Aging. 2006 Feb;27(2):228-36.
Bell’s Palsy of the Gut and other Manifestations of Lyme and Associated Diseases AUTHOR: Sherr VT SOURCE: Practical Gastroenterology April 2006
Bilateral dorsolateral thalamic lesions disrupts conscious recollection. AUTHORS: Edelstyn NM, Hunter B, Ellis SJ.SOURCE: Neuropsychologia. 2006;44(6):931-8. Epub 2005 Oct 25.
Borrelia burgdorferi in the central nervous system: experimental and clinical evidence for early invasion.AUTHORS: Garcia-Monco JC, Villar BF, Alen JC, Benach JL.SOURCE: J Infect Dis. 1990 Jun;161(6):1187-93.
Borrelia burgdorferi central nervous system infection presenting as an organic schizophrenialike disorder.AUTHORS: Hess A, Buchmann J, Zettl UK, Henschel S, Schlaefke D, Grau G, Benecke R.  SOURCE: Biol Psychiatry 1999 Mar 15;45(6):795
Borrelia burgdorferi persists in the brain in chronic lyme neuroborreliosis and may be associated with Alzheimer disease. AUTHORS: Miklossy J, Khalili K, Gern L, Ericson RL, Darekar P, Bolle L, Hurlimann J, Paster BJ. SOURCE: J Alzheimers Dis. 2004 Dec;6(6):639-49; discussion 673-81.
Borrelia burgdorferi-seropositive chronic encephalomyelopathy: Lyme neuroborreliosis? An autopsied report. AUTHORS: Kobayashi K, Mizukoshi C, Aoki T, Muramori F, Hayashi M, Miyazu K, Koshino Y, Ohta M, Nakanishi I, Yamaguchi N.  SOURCE: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 1997 Nov-Dec;8(6):384-90.
[Borreliosis--simultaneous Lyme carditis and psychiatric disorders--case report] AUTHORS: Legatowicz-Koprowska M, Gziut AI, Walczak E, Gil RJ, Wagner T. SOURCE: Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2008 May;24(143):433-5. Polish.
Brain SPECT Imaging in Chronic Lyme Disease.  AUTHORS:Plutchok JJ, Tikofsky RS, Liegner KB, Fallon BA, Van Heertum RL.  SOURCE: Journal of Spirochetal and Tick Borne-Diseases, 1999; 6: 10-16.
Carbamazepine in the treatment of Lyme disease-induced hyperacusis.
AUTHORS: Nields JA, Fallon BA, Jastreboff PJ.  SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1999 Winter;11(1):97-9
Case report: Lyme disease and complex partial seizures.AUTHOR: Bransfield RC.SOURCE: Journal of Spirochetes and Tick-borne Diseases; Fall/Winter 1999, Vol 6, p123-125
Central nervous system manifestations of human ehrlichiosis.
AUTHORS: Ratnasamy N, Everett ED, Roland WE, McDonald G, Caldwell CW.
SOURCE: Clin Infect Dis 1996 Aug;23(2):314-9
Cerebral metabolic changes associated with Lyme disease AUTHORS: Newberg A, Hassan A, Alavi A.  SOURCE: Nucl Med Commun 2002 August;23(8):773-777
Chronic Bacterial and Viral Infections in Neurodegenerative and Neurobehavioral Diseases. AUTHORS: Nicholson GL.SOURCE: Lab Medicine. 2008;39(5):291-9.
Chronic borrelia encephalomyeloradiculitis with severe mental disturbance: immunosuppressive versus antibiotic therapy. AUTHORS: Kollikowski HH, Schwendemann G, Schulz M, Wilhelm H, Lehmann HJ. SOURCE: J Neurol. 1988 Jan;235(3):140-2.
Chronic inflammation and amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer's disease -- role of Spirochetes. AUTHORS: Miklossy J.SOURCE: J Alzheimers Dis. 2008 May;13(4):381-91. Review.
Chronic neurologic manifestations of erythema migrans borreliosis.
AUTHORS: Ackermann R, Rehse-Kupper B, Gollmer E, Schmidt R.
SOURCE: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1988;539:16-23.
Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease.AUTHORS: Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Steere AC. SOURCE: N Engl J Med. 1990 Nov 22;323(21):1438-44.
Clinical and demographic characteristics of psychiatric patients seropositive for Borrelia burgdorferi. AUTHORS:Hájek T, Libiger J, Janovská D, Hájek P, Alda M, Höschl C.SOURCE: Eur Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;21(2):118-22.
[Clinical manifestations and epidemiological aspects leading to a diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: neurological and psychiatric manifestations in the course of Lyme borreliosis] AUTHORS: Créange A. SOURCE: Med Mal Infect. 2007 Jul-Aug;37(7-8):532-9. Epub 2007 Mar 26. Review. French.
Co-existance of toxoplasmosis and neuroborreliosis - a case report.
AUTHORS: Gustaw K, Beltowska K, Dlugosz E.  SOURCE:Ann Agric Environ Med. 2005;12(2):305-8.
Cognitive functioning in late Lyme borreliosis. AUTHORS:Krupp LB, Masur D, Schwartz J, Coyle PK, Langenbach LJ, Fernquist SK, Jandorf L, Halperin JJ. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 1991 Nov;48(11):1125-9.
Cognitive Impairments after Tick-borne Encephalitis.AUTHORS: Gustaw-Rothenberg K. SOURCE: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 2008;26:165-168.
Cognitive processing speed in Lyme disease. AUTHORS:Pollina DA, Sliwinski M, Squires NK, Krupp LB.  SOURCE:Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol. 1999 Jan;12(1):72-8.
Complaints attributed to chronic Lyme disease: depression or fibromyalgia? AUTHORS: Berman DS, Wenglin BD.SOURCE: Am J Med. 1995 Oct;99(4):440.
Concurrent infection of the central nervous system by Borrelia burgdorferi and Bartonella henselae: evidence for a novel tick-borne disease complex. AUTHORS: Eskow E, Rao RV, Mordechai E. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 2001 Sep;58(9):1357-63.
Concurrent medical conditions with pediatric bipolar disorder. AUTHORS: Scheffer RE, Linden S. SOURCE:Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2007 Jul;20(4):398-401. Review.
Consequences of treatment delay in Lyme disease.AUTHORS: Cameron DJ SOURCE: J Eval Clin Pract. 2007 Jun;13(3):470-2.
Constipation Heralding Neuroborreliosis AUTHORS:Shamim A, Shamim S; Liss G; Nylen E; Pincus J; Yepes M. SOURCE: Arch Neurol. 2005;62:671-673.
A Controlled Study of Cognitive Deficits in Children With Chronic Lyme Disease 
AUTHORS: Tager FA, Fallon BA, Keilp J, Rissenberg M, Jones CR, Liebowitz MR.
SOURCE: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 13:500-507, November 2001
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Behavioral Consequences of Infections of the Central Nervous System: With Emphasis on Viral InfectionsAUTHORS: Tselis A, MD, Booss J. SOURCE: J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 31:289–98, 2003
Catatonic syndrome in acute severe encephalitis due to Borrelia burgdorferi infection. Pfister HW, Preac-Mursic V, Wilske B, Rieder G, Forderreuther S, Schmidt S, AUTHORS:Kapfhammer HP. SOURCE: Neurology. 1993 Feb;43(2):433-5.
Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease.AUTHORS: Logigian EL; Kaplan RF; Steere AC SOURCE: N Engl J Med 1990 Nov 22;323(21):1438- 44.
Delirium and Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Caliendo MV, Kushon DJ, Helz JW.
SOURCE: Psychosomatics. 1995 Jan-Feb;36(1):69-74.
Delusional disorders in the course of tick-born encephalitis and borreliosis in patients with hemophilia A and posttraumatic epilepsy--diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties] AUTHORS: Grzywa A, Karakuła H, Górecka J, Chuchra M. SOURCE: Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2004 Jan;16(91):60-3. Polish.
Demyelinating polyradiculitis in neuro borreliosis: AUTHORS:Corral I, Sanchis G, Garcia-Ribas G, Quereda C, Escudero R, de Blas G: SOURCE: Neurologia 1995 Feb; 10 (2) : 110-113
Detection of Bartonella henselae by polymerase chain reaction in brain tissue of an immunocompromised patient with multiple enhancing lesions. Case report and review of the literature. AUTHORS: George TI, Manley G, Koehler JE, Hung VS, McDermott M, Bollen A. SOURCE: J Neurosurg. 1998 Oct;89(4):640-4. Review.
The diagnosis of Lyme disease. AUTHOR: Bransfield RC.SOURCE: Hosp Pract (Minneap). 1996 Aug 15;31(8):35, 40.
Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease.AUTHOR: Bransfield RC. SOURCE: JAMA. 1998 Sep 23-30;280(12):1049; author reply 1051.
Dementia associated with infectious diseases. AUTHOR:Almeida OP, Lautenschlager NT. SOURCE: Int Psychogeriatr. 2005;17 Suppl 1:S65-77. Review.
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease with Special Reference to Psychiatric Practice.  AUTHORS:Nields JA, Fallon BA.  SOURCE: Directions in Psychiatry, 1998, 18: 209-228.
A disease in disguise. Lyme can masquerade as migraine, or as madness.AUTHORS: Cowley G, Underwood A.SOURCE: Newsweek. 2004 Aug 23;144(8):62.
Do bartonella infections cause agitation, panic disorder, and treatment-resistant depression? AUTHORS: Schaller JL, Burkland GA, Langhoff PJ. SOURCE: MedGenMed. 2007 Sep 13;9(3):54.
Does process-specific slowing account for cognitive deficits in Lyme disease? AUTHORS: Pollina DA, Elkins LE, Squires NK, Scheffer SR, Krupp LB. SOURCE: Appl Neuropsychol. 1999;6(1):27-32.
Emerging infectious determinants of chronic diseases.AUTHORS: O'Connor SM, Taylor CE, Hughes JM. SOURCE:Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jul;12(7):1051-7.
Endogenous paranoid-hallucinatory syndrome caused by Borrelia encephalitis
AUTHORS: Barnett W, Sigmund D, Roelcke U, Mundt C.
SOURCE: Nervenarzt 1991 Jul;62(7):445-7 [German]
Epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory findings of human ehrlichiosis in the United States, 1988. AUTHORS: Eng TR, Harkess JR, Fishbein DB, Dawson JE, Greene CN, Redus MA, Satalowich FT.  SOURCE: JAMA 1990 Nov 7;264(17):2251-8
[Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid serotonin (5-HT) concentration in patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome--preliminary study] AUTHORS: Kepa L, Oczko-Grzesik B, Badura-Glombik T. SOURCE: Przegl Epidemiol. 2008;62(4):793-800. Polish.
Evidence for Mycoplasma, ssp., Chalmydia pneumoniae, and Human Herpes-virus 6 Coinfections in Blood of patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. AUTHORS: Nicholson GL, Gann R, Nicholson NL, Haier J. SOURCE: Journal of Neuroscience Research 2007 85. 
First-episode psychosis in a managed care setting: clinical management and research. AUTHORS: Jarskog LF, Mattioli MA, Perkins DO, Lieberman JA. SOURCE: Am J Psychiatry. 2000 Jun;157(6):878-84.
FLAIR and magnetization transfer imaging of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. AUTHORS:Morgen K, Martin R, Stone RD, Grafman J, Kadom N, McFarland HF, Marques A. SOURCE: Neurology. 2001 Dec 11;57(11):1980-5.
Functional Brain Imaging and Neuropsychological Testing in Lyme Disease 
AUTHORS: Fallon BA, Das S, Plutchok JJ, Tager F, Liegner K, Van Heertum R.
SOURCE: CID 1997; 25:S57-63  COMPLETE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v25nS1/jy21_57/jy21_57.web.pdf
Geographical and seasonal correlation of multiple sclerosis to sporadic schizophrenia. AUTHOR: Fritzsche M.SOURCE: Int J Health Geogr. 2002 Dec 20;1(1):5.
Geographic correlation of schizophrenia to ticks and tick-borne encephalitis.
AUTHOR: Brown JS Jr.  SOURCE: Schizophr Bull 1994;20(4):755-75
Geographic distribution of Lyme disease in MudanjiangAUTHOR: Zhang Z.
SOURCE: Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 1991 Jun;12(3):154-7. [Chinese]
Gestational Lyme borreliosis. Implications for the fetus.AUTHOR: MacDonald AB.SOURCE: Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 1989 Nov;15(4):657-77. Review.
Higher Prevalence of Antibodies to Borrelia Burgdorferi in Psychiatric Patients Than in Healthy Subjects  AUTHORS:Hajek T, Paskova B, Janovska D, Bahbouh R, Hajek P, Libiger J, Hoschl C.  SOURCE: Am J Psychiatry 159:297-301, February 2002  COMPLETE TEXT AT:http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/159/2/297 
Hypochondriasis and obsessive compulsive disorder: overlaps in diagnosis and treatment. AUTHORS: Fallon BA, Javitch JA, Hollander E, Liebowitz MR. SOURCE: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. November 1991: 52(11):457-60.
Increased anti-streptococcal antibodies in patients with Tourette's syndrome. AUTHORS: Muller N, Riedel M, Straube A, Gunther W, Wilske B. SOURCE: Psychiatry Res. 2000 Apr 24;94(1):43-9.
Infectious Agents in Schizophrenia and Bipolar DisorderAUTHORS: Yolken RH, Torrey EF, SOURCE: 2006 June 43(7)
Inflammatory brain changes in Lyme Borreliosis. A report on three patients and review of literature; AUTHORS: Oksi J, Kalimo H, Marttila RJ, Marjarnaki M, Sonninen P, Nikoskelainen J, Viljanen MK:  SOURCE: Brain, 1996 Dec; 119 (Pt 6) : 2143-2154
Invasion of human neuronal and glial cells by an infectious strain of Borrelia burgdorferi. AUTHORS: Livengood JA, Gilmore RD Jr. SOURCE: Microbes Infect. 2006 Nov-Dec;8(14-15):2832-40. Epub 2006 Sep 22.

 Isolated monolateral neurosensory hearing loss as a rare sign of neuroborreliosis.AUTHORS: Iero I, Elia M, Cosentino FI, Lanuzza B, Spada RS, Toscano G, Tripodi M, Belfiore A, Ferri R. SOURCE: Neurol Sci. 2004 Apr;25(1):30-3.Late-Stage Neuropsychiatric Lyme Borreliosis: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment AUTHORS: Fallon BA, Schwartzberg M, Bransfield R, Zimmerman B, Scotti A, Weber CA, Liebowitz MR.  SOURCE: Psychosomatics 1995;36:295-300
COMPLETE TEXT AT:
http://www.wadhurst.demon.co.uk/lyme/lyme101.htm 
The long-term clinical outcomes of Lyme disease. A population-based retrospective cohort study. AUTHORS:Shadick NA, Phillips CB, Logigian EL, Steere AC, Kaplan RF, Berardi VP, Duray PH, Larson MG, Wright EA, Ginsburg KS, Katz JN, Liang MH. SOURCE: Ann Intern Med. 1994 Oct 15;121(8):560-7.
Long-term cognitive effects of Lyme disease in children.AUTHORS: Adams WV, Rose CD, Eppes SC, Klein JD. SOURCE: Appl Neuropsychol 1999;6(1):39-45
Loss of the sense of humor AUTHOR: Ramanan SV. SOURCE: Arch Intern Med 2000 Sep 11;160(16):2546
Lyme borreliosis in neurology and psychiatry AUTHOR:Kohler J.  SOURCE: Fortschr Med. 1990 Apr 10;108(10):191-3, 197. Review. [German]
Lyme Borreliosis: Neuropsychiatric Aspects and Neuropathology AUTHORS: Fallon BA, Vaccaro BJ, Romano M, Clemente MD. SOURCE: Psychiatric Annals 2006;36(2):120-8.
Lyme Disease: A Neuropsychiatric Illness  AUTHORS:Fallon BA, Nields JA.
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Lyme disease: an infectious and postinfectious syndrome.AUTHOR: Asch ES, Bujak DI, Weiss M, Peterson MG, Weinstein A. SOURCE: Journal of Rheumatology. 1994 Mar;21(3):454-61
Lyme Disease and the Clinical Spectrum of Antibiotic Responsive Chronic MeningoencephalomyelitidesAUTHORS: Liegner KB, Duray P, et al. SOURCE: Journal of Spirochetal and Tick-Borne Diseases. 1997 Fall.Winter:4:61-72
Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders - Psychiatric Times AUTHOR:Bransfield RC. SOURCE: Psychiatric Times. 2007 Dec; 24(14)
Lyme disease--neuroborreliosis
AUTHORS: Jovanovic J, Cvjetkovic D, Vukadinov J.
SOURCE: Med Pregl. 1995;48(3-4):120-2. [Serbo-Croatian: Roman]
Lyme disease presenting as Tourette's syndrome.AUTHORS: Riedel M, Straube A, Schwarz MJ, Wilske B, Muller N. SOURCE: Lancet. 1998 Feb 7;351(9100):418-9
Lyme encephalopathy. AUTHORS: Sanders K, Rogers JD. SOURCE: Neurology. 1991 Jun;41(6):952-3.
Lyme encephalopathy: long-term neuropsychological deficits years after acute neuroborreliosis. AUTHORS: Benke T, Gasse T, Hittmair-Delazer M, Schmutzhard E.  SOURCE:Acta Neurol Scand. 1995 May;91(5):353-7.
Lyme encephalopathy: a neuropsychological perspective.AUTHORS: Kaplan RF, Jones-Woodward L. SOURCE:Semin Neurol. 1997 Mar;17(1):31-7. Review.
Lyme neuroborreliosis:  AUTHORS: Garcia-Monco JC, Benach JL: SOURCE: Ann Neurol 1995 Jun; 37 (6) : 691-70     
Lyme neuroborreliosis: central nervous system manifestations. AUTHORS: Halperin JJ, Luft BJ, Anand AK, Roque CT, Alvarez O, Volkman DJ, Dattwyler RJ.SOURCE:Neurology. 1989 Jun;39(6):753-9.
Lyme Neuroborreliosis: infection, immunity and inflammation.AUTHORS: Pachner AR, Steiner I SOURCE: Lancet Neurology 2007 6:544-52.
 Lyme neuroborreliosis manifesting as an intracranial mass lesion. AUTHORS: Murray R, Morawetz R, Kepes J, el Gammal T, LeDoux M.  SOURCE: Neurosurgery. 1992 May;30(5):769-73.
Lyme neuroborreliosis of mental manifestation. Apropos of a case
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Lyme neuroborreliosis revealed as a normal pressure hydrocephalus: a cause of reversible dementia.AUTHORS: Etienne M, Carvalho P, Fauchais AL, Pestel-Caron M, Doucet J, Chassagne P.  SOURCE: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003 Apr;51(4):579-80.
Lyme Psychosis AUTHORS: van den Bergen HA, Smith JP, van der Zwan A.
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Measurement of long-term outcomes in observational and randomised controlled trials. AUTHORS: Hodgson R, Bushe C, Hunter R. SOURCE: Br J Psychiatry Suppl. 2007 Aug;50:s78-84. Review.
Memory and executive functions in adolescents with posttreatment Lyme disease
AUTHORS: McAuliffe P, Brassard MR, Fallon B  SOURCE:Applied Neuropsychology, Volume 15, Issue 3 July 2008, pp. 208 - 219
Memory impairment and depression in patients with Lyme encephalopathy: comparison with fibromyalgia and nonpsychotically depressed patients.
AUTHORS: Kaplan RF, Meadows ME, Vincent LC, Logigian EL, Steere AC. SOURCE: Neurology. 1992 Jul;42(7):1263-7.
Meningoradiculoencephalitis in Lyme disease. A case with major regressive mental disorders. AUTHORS: Ferroir JP, Reignier A, Nicolle MH, Guillard A.  SOURCE: Presse Med. 1988 Apr 16;17(14):697. [French]
Mental disorders in the course of lyme borreliosis and tick borne encephalitis
AUTHORS: Juchnowicz D, Rudnik I, Czernikiewicz A, Zajkowska J, Pancewicz SA.
SOURCE: Przegl Epidemiol 2002;56 Suppl 1:37-50 [Polish]
Mental disorders in the course of neuroborreliosis: own observation
AUTHORS: Zajkowska JM, Poplawska R, Pancewicz SA, Kondrusik M, Gudel I, Snarska I.  SOURCE: Psychiatr Pol 1999 Nov-Dec;33(6):939-46 [Polish]
Mental disorders in Lyme disease
AUTHORS: Rudnik-Szalaj I, Poplawska R, Zajkowska J, Szulc A, Pancewicz SA, Gudel I.  SOURCE: Pol Merkuriusz Lek. 2001 Nov;11(65):460-2. Review. [Polish]
[Mental disorders in the course of lyme borreliosis and tick borne encephalitis]AUTHORS: Juchnowicz D, Rudnik I, Czernikiewicz A, Zajkowska J, Pancewicz SA. SOURCE:Przegl Epidemiol. 2002;56 Suppl 1:37-50. Polish.
[Mental disorders in the course of neuroborreliosis: own observation]AUTHORS: Zajkowska JM, Popławska R, Pancewicz SA, Kondrusik M, Gudel I, Snarska I.SOURCE:Psychiatr Pol. 1999 Nov-Dec;33(6):939-46. Polish.
Mental nerve neuropathy in Lyme disease. AUTHORS:Maillefert JF, Dardel P, Piroth C, Tavernier C. SOURCE: Rev Rhum Engl Ed. 1997 Dec;64(12):855.
Mental problems in Lyme disease AUTHORS: Rudnik I, Poplawska R, Zajkowska J, Konarzewska B, Juchnowicz D, Pancewicz SA  SOURCE: Pol Merkuriusz Lek. 2003 Aug;15(86):161-4
Multiple neurologic manifestations of Borrelia burgdorferi infection
AUTHOR: Dupuis MJ.  SOURCE: Rev Neurol (Paris) 1988;144(12):765-75 [French]
Munchausen's syndrome by proxy and Lyme disease: medical misogyny or diagnostic mystery? AUTHOR: Sherr VT.  SOURCE: Med Hypotheses. 2005;65(3):440-7.
Musical Hallucinations in Patients with Lyme Disease AUTHORS: Stricker R, Winger  SOURCE: Southern Medical Journal 2003; 96(7):711-715
Neopterin production and tryptophan degradation in acute Lyme neuroborreliosis versus late Lyme encephalopathy.
Gasse T, Murr C, Meyersbach P, Schmutzhard E, Wachter H, Fuchs D. Eur J Clin Chem Clin Biochem. 1994 Sep;32(9):685-9.
Neuroborreliosis: a psychiatric problem? AUTHORS:Poplawska R, Szulc A, Zajkowska J, Pancewicz S. SOURCE: Psychiatr Pol 1999 Mar-Apr;33(2):241-50 [Polish]
[Neuroborreliosis in a patient with progressive supranuclear paralysis. An association or the cause?] AUTHORS:García-Moreno JM, Izquierdo G, Chacón J, Angulo S, Borobio MV. SOURCE: Rev Neurol. 1997 Dec;25(148):1919-21. Spanish.
Neurocognitive abnormalities in children after classic manifestations of Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Bloom BJ, Wyckoff PM, Meissner HC, Steere AC. SOURCE: Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1998 Mar;17(3):189-96.
Neurologic syndromes in Lyme disease AUTHORS:Zajkowska JM, Hermanowska-Szpakowicz T, Kondrusik M, Pancewicz SA  SOURCE: Pol Merkuriusz Lek. 2000 Aug;9(50):584-8. Review. [Polish]
[Neurologic and psychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease] AUTHORS: Blanc F; GEBLY. SOURCE: Med Mal Infect. 2007 Jul-Aug;37(7-8):435-45. Epub 2007 Mar 9. Review.
Neurologic manifestations in children with North American Lyme disease. AUTHORS: Belman AL, Iyer M, Coyle PK, Dattwyler R. SOURCE: Neurology. 1993 Dec;43(12):2609-14.
Neurological Complications of Lyme Disease: Dilemmas in Diagnosis and Treatment AUTHORS: Stratmoen M.SOURCE: Neurology Today 2004;4(4)71-5.
[Neurological manifestations of Lyme disease] AUTHORS:García-Moncó JC, Benach JL. SOURCE: Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 1989 Nov;7(9):501-6. Review. Spanish.
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