[Neuropsychiatric disorders and bodily reactivity in thermal lesions].

The urgent questions of neuropsychic disorders related to thermal lesions are discussed on the basis of an analysis of the literature data and the results of the authors' long-term studies. It is shown that all these disturbances are formed in patients with deep burns affecting over 15% of the body's surface in the presence of marked disturbances of all links of the systemic anti-infection defence, the latter being conducive to the generalization of the infectious process. Thus, these pronounced disorders of the immunologic mechanisms of homeostasis are responsible for the background against which those severely burned develop the organic neuropsychopathological syndrome, burn-associated encephalopathy, which persists for a long time after the trauma.