Depressive symptoms following herpes simplex encephalitis - an underestimated phenomenon?

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 403-407

  Fazekas, Christian ^a   Enzinger, Christian ^a   Wallner, Mirja ^a   Kischka, Udo ^b   Greimel, Eva ^a   Kapeller, Peter ^a   Stix, Peter ^a   Pieringer, Walter ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b RIVERMEAD REHABILITATION CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Health related quality of life; Herpes simplex encephalitis; Long term follow up; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELEPHONE; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEUKOENCEPHALITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33750028313     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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