IMPAIRED CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS IN CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS
NATHANIEL S. APTER M. D.1,
WARD C. HALSTEAD PH. D.2,
C. WESLEY EISELE M. D.3, , and
NORMAN B. MCCULLOUGH PH. D., M. D.4
1 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
2 Professor of Experimental Psychology, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
3 Associate Professor of Medicine, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
4 S. A. Surgeon, U.S.P.H.S., and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, The Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
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.
