Onset of psychosis at age 81? With regard to frontal lobe syndromes

When the frontal lobe of the brain is affected important behavioral changes may occur mainly at the level of executive functioning, i.e., planning, decision-making, judgment and self-perception. However, the behavioral changes may be of different nature with marked indifference and apathy. We report...

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Autores principales: Pedro, Patrícia, Telles-Correia, Diogo, Godinho, Iolanda, Chagas, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26398362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082015RC3004
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author Pedro, Patrícia
Telles-Correia, Diogo
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Chagas, Carlos
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description When the frontal lobe of the brain is affected important behavioral changes may occur mainly at the level of executive functioning, i.e., planning, decision-making, judgment and self-perception. However, the behavioral changes may be of different nature with marked indifference and apathy. We report a clinical case of an 81-year-old patient with sudden onset of behavioral changes that were initially interpreted as an acute confusional episode of infectious etiology, but actually they were due to an ischemic lesion in the frontal lobe.
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spelling pubmed-48786412016-08-10 Onset of psychosis at age 81? With regard to frontal lobe syndromes Pedro, Patrícia Telles-Correia, Diogo Godinho, Iolanda Chagas, Carlos Einstein (Sao Paulo) Case Report When the frontal lobe of the brain is affected important behavioral changes may occur mainly at the level of executive functioning, i.e., planning, decision-making, judgment and self-perception. However, the behavioral changes may be of different nature with marked indifference and apathy. We report a clinical case of an 81-year-old patient with sudden onset of behavioral changes that were initially interpreted as an acute confusional episode of infectious etiology, but actually they were due to an ischemic lesion in the frontal lobe. Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4878641/ /pubmed/26398362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082015RC3004 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878641/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082015RC3004
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