Poster 110‐E A Cause for Concern with Guillain–Barré Syndrome: A Case Report

Psychiatric Sequelae of Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Towards a Multidisciplinary Team Approach

“…Table 1 includes six case studies reporting anxiety, lethargy and sleep disturbance at the onset of physical disability, as well as residual psychiatric symptoms at one to four weeks after GBS onset [12][13][14][15]. Two case studies reported that psychiatric symptoms preceded onset of physical disability, including stress, depression, anxiety and amnesia [16,17]. Table 2 includes 24 studies, including a total of 6,984 patients, that collectively reported that GBS causes psychiatric symptoms, including stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep abnormalities, visual hallucinations, paranoid delusions, disorientation, terror, and psychosis [11,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”