RESEARCH ARTICLE
Diagnosis of Infectious or Inflammatory Psychosyndromes
Karl Bechter
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2012Volume: 6
Issue: Suppl 1
First Page: 113
Last Page: 118
Publisher ID: TONEUJ-6-113
DOI: 10.2174/1874205X01206010113
Article History:
Received Date: 28/4/2012Revision Received Date: 22/6/2012
Acceptance Date: 02/7/2012
Electronic publication date: 5/10/2012
Collection year: 2012

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Abstract
Before an outline of the process of diagnosis and differential diagnosis in infectious and/or inflammatory psy-chosyndromes is given, a more general overview onto the approach to organic psychosyndromes seems useful, because in both entities similar principles of causality conclusion are applied. Correlation does not demonstrate causality. Therefore the principles and consensus recommendations, and limitations of causal inference to categorize psychosyndromes as be-ing ‘organic’, is to be discussed in detail.