Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Acute Epidemic Encephalitis in Children

In reviewing the enormous number of articles on allphases of acute epidemic encephalitis one cannot help being impressed by the lack of attention paid to children who have suffered from this disease. This is especially true of the important neuropsychiatric sequelae. Few articles deal exclusively with acute epidemic encephali-tis in children. Happ and Blackfan (1920), Happ and Mason (1921), Grossman (1921), Leahly and Sands (1921), and recently Hohman (1922) have written on this subject, the two last named having confined their remarks to the psychiatric manifestations of this interest-ing and protean disease. During the past few months seventeen patients have been referred to the neuropsychiatric clinic for examina-tion, because of marked behavior abnormalities. Many of these patients were referred directly by the school