title: Neurocysticercosis presenting as psychiatric illness.
abstract: Neurocysticercosis is a common neuroparasitosis. Presentation with psychiatric symptoms is uncommon in neurocysticercosis. The present paper describes a patient who presented with mutism, neglect of personal care and incontinence in a psychiatric setting and investigations revealed diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. The case report highlights the possible misdiagnoses of a case of neurocysticercosis as psychiatric illness and mutism as an uncommon presentation of neurocysticercosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, PO Box 9520, Dilshad Garden, Delhi-110095, India.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Chadda
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D009155:Mutism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed