"Up to 40% of patients with Lyme disease develop neurologic involvement of either the peripheral or central nervous system [CNS]. Dissemination to the CNS can occur within the first few weeks after skin infection. Like syphilis, Lyme disease may have a latency period of months to years before symptoms of late infection emerge. Later, encephalomyelitis and encephalopathy may occur. A broad range of psychiatric reactions have been associated with Lyme disease including paranoia, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, major depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder."

(Fallon BA, Nields JA. Lyme Disease: A Neuropsychiatric Illness. Am J Psychiatry 1994;151:1571-1583.)

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection and can be treated with a number of antibiotics:

Oral antibiotics include:

• Doxycycline
• Tetracycline
• Amoxicillin
• Minocycline
• Ceftin
• Biaxin
• Suprax
• Zithromax

Intravenous antibiotics include:

• Rocephin
• Claforan
• Primaxin
• Azithromycin (Zithromax)

Intramuscular antibiotics include:

• Bicillin
• Rocephin

See http://stason.org/TULARC/health/lyme-disease/2-17-Can-Lyme-disease-cause...