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10. Appendix
Conditions Causing Psychosis
Psychosis can be caused by the following (Diamond 2002):
Progressive neurological diseases
− Multiple sclerosis
− Huntington’s chorea
− Alzheimer’s disease and Pick’s disease
Central nervous system infections
− Encephalitis
− Neurosyphilis
− Typhus
− Lyme Disease
− HIV infection
− Toxoplasma gondii (Pedersen 2011)
Space-occupying lesions within the skull
− Brain tumors
− Bleeding within the skull
− Brain abscesses
Metabolic disorders
− Accumulation of toxins from severe liver or kidney disease
− Disturbances in electrolytes, either too low a serum level of
sodium or too high a serum level of calcium
− Acute intermittent porphyria
− Wilson’s disease
− Systemic lupus erythematosis
− Caisson disease (“the bends”)
