Major depression with psychotic features associated with acyclovir therapy.

Psychiatric side-effects associated with acyclovir therapy are very rare in the medical literature. We present a case of depression with paranoid delusions in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia that appeared after intravenous acyclovir treatment for herpes simplex infection. The clinical picture resolved following discontinuation of acyclovir and treatment with haloperidol and maprotiline.

Conversive hallucinations.

Conversive hallucinations are rare in the psychiatric literature. The authors present a case which demonstrates the psychogenesis and phenomenology of conversive hallucinations in a young female patient.

Schizophreniform episode following measles infection.

A case of schizophreniform episode following measles infection in a 27-year-old woman is presented. The possibility that the clinical picture is a first description in the literature of an association between a schizophreniform episode and possible measles-induced allergic encephalitis is discussed. Other possible connections between measles infection and schizophreniform episode are also mentioned.

The possible relationship between Laurence-Moon-Biedl-Bardet syndrome and a schizophrenic-like psychosis.

The Laurence-Moon-Biedl-Bardet syndrome is probably transmitted hereditarily and recognizable mainly by: a) retinitis pigmentosa; b) hypogonadism and obesity; and c) orthopedic anomalities such as polidactylia, syndactylia, and acroecephalosyndactylia with oligophrenia. Sometimes, other disturbance, mainly dermatological (alopecia), neurological, urological, endocrinological, and, rarely, congenital heart defects, may coexist.