Differentiating Between a Corpus Callosum Lesion and VGKC-Antibody Encephalitis as Causes of Organic Mania and Psychosis in A Patient With Past Hypoxic Brain Injury

Abstract

A young woman with a history of minor hypoxic brain injury, depressive episode and a previous serious suicide attempt, presented initially to an emergency department with an apparent manic episode. Presenting symptoms duringthe following psychiatric hospital admission included excitable and labile mood, hyperactivity, poor sleep, pressured speech, grandiose ideas and possible mood-congruent auditory hallucinations.