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Brain Lesions Manifesting as Psychiatric Disorders: Eight Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Adomas Bunevicius ,
Vytenis Pranas Deltuva ,
Daiva Deltuviene ,
Arimantas Tamasauskas  and
Robertas Bunevicius
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Abstract

Sometimes patients with organic brain lesions in neurologically silent brain areas might present only with psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa, or cognitive dysfunction. This study presents eight cases of patients with brain lesions (four cases of meningiomas, one case of intracerebral cysts, one case of anaplastic oligodendroglioma, one case of multiform glioblastoma, and one case of occlusive hydrocephalus) who, for a significant period of time, were diagnosed and treated for psychiatric disorders (three cases of Alzheimer's disease, two cases of schizoaffective disorder, one case of schizophrenia, one case of depression, and one case of organic emotional lability disorder). When neurologic symptoms developed, they underwent neuroimaging studies and organic brain lesions were diagnosed. Further treatment required neurosurgical interventions. These cases show that brain tumors can be neurologically silent for a sufficient period of time and manifest as psychiatric disorders.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 2008 , pp. 950 - 958
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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