Someone poisoned by CO may seem to make a full recovery, only to relapse perhaps several days later with any of a whole gamut of neurological and psychiatric symptoms. These may even be enough to mimic a full-blown organic psychosis.
This link is to a BMJ editorial mentioning this phenomenon.
Stephen Thom has published extensively over many years about the effects of CO, and this article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences covers DNS in detail. It has 38 references, many accessible on line.
For more coverage of this phenomenon, try this pdf file (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader) from the World Health Organisation.
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