SCHIZOPHRENIC REACTION SYNDROME IN COURSE OF ACUTE DEMYELINATION OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

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Abstract
There is much controversy among various authors concerning the clinical diagnosis of certain schizophrenic syndromes which are associated at times with doubtful neurologic signs and with which definite organic changes in the brain appear. This difference of opinion arises from the fact that some authors explain the mental symptoms on the basis of psychogenic mechanisms while others believe that these symptoms may be the expression of organic changes.1 It seems to us that it is of interest and importance that both clinicians and neouropathologists take into consideration the fact that, besides psychogenic mechanisms, various somatogenic factors, acting independently or in combination, may precipitate a schizophrenic syndrome.2 In support of this view, we shall limit ourselves to presenting and discussing one type of organic cerebral change which may precipitate clinical manifestations of the schizophrenic type. REPORT OF CASE B. G., a 34 year old married white woman, a factory

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