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Parieto-Occipital Syndrome Following Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. D. F. Steele  and
A. B. Hegarty
G. D. F. Steele
Affiliation:
Bristol Mental Hospitals
A. B. Hegarty
Affiliation:
Bangour Hospital, West Lothian
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Suicidal attempts by coal-gas poisoning are very common. Carbon monoxide is a principal constituent of this gas, and can produce severe and permanent brain damage. It is surprising, therefore, to find so few cases of chronic organic psychosis attributed to this cause in mental hospital practice. Rosseter (1928) found only one example of permanent psychosis in 2,000 cases of carbon monoxide asphyxiation. Shillito, Drinker and Shaughnessy (1936) made a follow-up study of 21,000 cases of acute carbon monoxide poisoning. In only 43 of these were the after-effects sufficiently severe to warrant their admission to a mental hospital. Twenty-three subsequently recovered, 11 died, and 9 suffered permanent nervous and mental sequelae. They found that the ratio of psychosis following carbon monoxide poisoning to other psychoses was 1 in 2,000. Henderson and Gillespie (1944) could find only one such case in 5,000 consecutive admissions.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 405 , October 1950 , pp. 1015 - 1023
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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