NERVOUS AND MENTAL SEQUELAE OF MALALIA

Abstract

Nervous and mental sequelae in those who survived severe malaria are diversified and an some cases may be permanent. The author described 18 cases with neuropsychiatric disturbances of long duration which could be attributed to malaria eperienced during the recent war.
Among neurological symptoms, extrapyramidal signs such as Parkinsonism, choreoathetotic movements, spastic torticollis, were striking and dysarthria, pyramidal symptoms were also observed in two cases.
Cases with severe mental deterioration, pseudoparetic picture, schizophrenia-like symptoms, and neurasthenic reaction on the basis of possible brain damage were reported and the causal connexion of these symptoms with malalia was discussed.