PMID: 10665265: Neuropsychiatry of basal ganglia disorders

[janet marie paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neuropsychiatry of Huntington's disease and other basal ganglia disorders.

Degenerative diseases of the basal ganglia, such as Huntington's disease (HD), 
Parkinson's disease, and Wilson's disease, are characterized by motor, 
cognitive, and psychiatric manifestations.

HD, in particular, can be considered a paradigmatic neuropsychiatric disorder 
that has all three components of the "Triadic Syndromes": dyskinesia, dementia, 
and depression.

The authors examine the phenomenology, prevalence, and management of 
psychiatric disturbances occurring in diseases of the basal ganglia.

They address psychiatric conditions such as depression, mania, psychosis, 
obsessive-compulsive disorders, aggression, irritability, apathy, sexual 
disorders, and delirium, discussing subtleties of diagnosis, and making 
reference to more unusual disorders of the basal ganglia, such as 
postencephalitic parkinsonism and Fahr's disease.


Psychosomatics 2000 Jan-Feb;41(1):24-30
Rosenblatt A, Leroi I
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, USA.
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PMID: 10665265, UI: 20128650

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