Injury can result in a failure of an ability to evoke or inhibit an emotional function. The end result can be disorders such as depression, panic, OCD, mania, hallucinations, apathy, etc. T he cognitive and processing dysfunction is much easier to correlate with anatomy and physiology. Some deficits are correlated with very specific areas of the brain, while other dysfunction, such as violence, can correlate with injury in many different areas. A ny standard of diagnosis for late stage, chronic Lyme disease must incorporate the fact that it is a very complex disease with not only CNS, but also many other different presentations in its later stages.
Infectious disease can cause mental illness by way of a number of mechanisms.
Psychotherapeutic interventions can help in the treatment of infectious disease, and antibiotic treatments can help in the treatment of psychiatric, cognitive and neurological disease. M ost disagreement is a lack of awareness, and an honest difference of opinion when approaching a very complex issue, but bias factors may retard progress as well. Of course, most bias is rooted in issues of money and power. Our best clinical judgment should never defer to any bias factor. C learly we can overcome the usual resistance to progress with the usual approaches - education, research, legislation, litigation, and regulation.