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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 105, No. 5

Article | November 01, 1948

IMPAIRED CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS IN CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS

NATHANIEL S. APTER; WARD C. HALSTEAD; C. WESLEY EISELE; NORMAN B. MCCULLOUGH

Am J Psychiatry 1948;105:361-366.

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

Professor of Experimental Psychology, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

Associate Professor of Medicine, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

S. A. Surgeon, U.S.P.H.S., and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

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Combined medical, psychiatric, and experimental psychological techniques provide correlative and corroborative data which indicate that cerebral impairment occurs in some patients with brucellosis. Damage to the cerebral cortex may explain many of the symptoms and changes in behavorial patterns in these patients.A syndrome of organic brain disease associated with chronic brucellosis is described.

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