[Neuropsychiatric syndroms in seropositive population]

The Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic infectious disease. By its complexity and the importance of psychiatric syndromes observed among HIV patients, the common contribution of somatic and psychiatric health specialists is often mandatory. Conversely, more or less 20 % of psychiatric patients are infected by the AIDS' virus. Moreover, these troubles would be their second reason of hospitalization. These psychiatric symptoms, so caused by HIV, may occur before its serological discovery. Thereby, it will be interesting for the psychiatrist to acquire enough knowledge about this disease to establish preventing actions and strategies of psychoeducation.