[COVID-19: risks of psychological trauma for patients in intensive care or for their families].

For serious cases of COVID-19, with severe respiratory failure due to damage to the lungs by SARS-CoV-2, hospitalisation in intensive care with intubation is often essential. What psychotraumatic risks does this episode present for these patients? Are these sudden, complex treatments, sometimes with fatal outcomes and frequently reported in the media, also a factor in the appearance of psychological trauma for families? These questions are the subject of this clinical reflection.

[Neuropsychopathology of autoimmune encephalitis with anti-NMDA receptor antibodies].

Autoimmune encephalitis with anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies is a neuropsychiatric disorder, with a psychopathological aspect in its early evolutionary phases, which often leads to psychiatric hospitalizations. This pathology is usually curable without sequelae. Its prognosis depends on the early diagnosis and therapeutic management.

[Organic and psychiatric intricacy: The complex psychiatric disorder concept, paraclinical investigations].

The purpose of this article is to describe complex psychiatric disorders, to recall "minimal classical" explorations in psychiatry, to describe the concept of "complex psychiatric disorders" and to propose a systematized method of exploration. Some organic diseases are well known for their links with psychiatric disorders (manic syndrome and hyperthyroidism, depressive syndrome and corticotropic insufficiency, anxiety disorder and heart disease, etc.).

Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT): Characteristics, treatment and outcome in 251 cases from the literature.

Background: Steroid-responsive encephalopathy and associated autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT) is characterized by encephalopathy and the presence of antithyroid antibodies. We describe the clinical presentation, outcome and treatments for SREAT by a systematic review of the literature.

Methods: MEDLINE via PubMed, Web of Science and the Cochrane Library were searched for articles published until 2015.