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Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports

Cognitive deficits and psychiatric morbidities are commonly detected in dystonia. Psychiatric disturbances are of particular clinical concern as they not only contribute to poor quality of life and disease associated burden, but also exacerbate motor and cognitive symptoms. Bilateral deep brain stim...

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Autores principales: Zacharia, Sophie J, Sokratous, Giannis, Samuel, Mike, Costello, Angela, Ashkan, Keyoumars, Shotbolt, Paul
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Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30648047
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3507
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author Zacharia, Sophie J
Sokratous, Giannis
Samuel, Mike
Costello, Angela
Ashkan, Keyoumars
Shotbolt, Paul
author_facet Zacharia, Sophie J
Sokratous, Giannis
Samuel, Mike
Costello, Angela
Ashkan, Keyoumars
Shotbolt, Paul
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description Cognitive deficits and psychiatric morbidities are commonly detected in dystonia. Psychiatric disturbances are of particular clinical concern as they not only contribute to poor quality of life and disease associated burden, but also exacerbate motor and cognitive symptoms. Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus improves motor symptoms in treatment-resistant dystonia, but its implications for non-motor manifestations are poorly understood. Improved prediction of cognitive and neuropsychiatric outcomes is important in deep brain stimulation (DBS) research and we aim to assess the latter through established assessment tools. We document the cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles in 11 primary and 10 secondary dystonia patients attending our DBS clinic. We performed routine multidisciplinary assessments including a comprehensive battery of neuropsychometric tests and detailed neuropsychiatric evaluations. Post-operative assessment outcomes are reported for three patients in case series. The main cognitive deficit was on the Brixton test of spatial anticipation in primary dystonia. Background medical history included psychiatric illness in 38.1% of the patients with 76% of patients having mood abnormalities confirming elevated psychiatric morbidity in this population. Depressive illness was more prominent in primary, whereas clinically relevant histories in secondary dystonia were varied. Of the 21 patients three were able to perform on selected tests due to extensive limitations of their dystonia. No obvious alteration in intellectual functioning following DBS surgery relative to performance at the time of initial assessment was observed. The frequency of individual impairments suggests that difficulties associated with dystonia are likely to be of clinical relevance to cognitive functions in the majority of patients. In particular, current findings suggest that executive difficulties related to inductive processes and spatial learning may be a common in primary dystonias. Psychiatric disturbances demand recognition as a central aspect of dystonia as they contribute to overall disease burden, poor quality of life and exacerbated motor disabilities. The available evidence provides overwhelming suggestion that vulnerability to depression is inherent to the dystonia phenotype.
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spelling pubmed-63181052019-01-15 Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports Zacharia, Sophie J Sokratous, Giannis Samuel, Mike Costello, Angela Ashkan, Keyoumars Shotbolt, Paul Cureus Neurology Cognitive deficits and psychiatric morbidities are commonly detected in dystonia. Psychiatric disturbances are of particular clinical concern as they not only contribute to poor quality of life and disease associated burden, but also exacerbate motor and cognitive symptoms. Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus improves motor symptoms in treatment-resistant dystonia, but its implications for non-motor manifestations are poorly understood. Improved prediction of cognitive and neuropsychiatric outcomes is important in deep brain stimulation (DBS) research and we aim to assess the latter through established assessment tools. We document the cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles in 11 primary and 10 secondary dystonia patients attending our DBS clinic. We performed routine multidisciplinary assessments including a comprehensive battery of neuropsychometric tests and detailed neuropsychiatric evaluations. Post-operative assessment outcomes are reported for three patients in case series. The main cognitive deficit was on the Brixton test of spatial anticipation in primary dystonia. Background medical history included psychiatric illness in 38.1% of the patients with 76% of patients having mood abnormalities confirming elevated psychiatric morbidity in this population. Depressive illness was more prominent in primary, whereas clinically relevant histories in secondary dystonia were varied. Of the 21 patients three were able to perform on selected tests due to extensive limitations of their dystonia. No obvious alteration in intellectual functioning following DBS surgery relative to performance at the time of initial assessment was observed. The frequency of individual impairments suggests that difficulties associated with dystonia are likely to be of clinical relevance to cognitive functions in the majority of patients. In particular, current findings suggest that executive difficulties related to inductive processes and spatial learning may be a common in primary dystonias. Psychiatric disturbances demand recognition as a central aspect of dystonia as they contribute to overall disease burden, poor quality of life and exacerbated motor disabilities. The available evidence provides overwhelming suggestion that vulnerability to depression is inherent to the dystonia phenotype. Cureus 2018-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6318105/ /pubmed/30648047 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3507 Text en Copyright © 2018, Zacharia et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurology
Zacharia, Sophie J
Sokratous, Giannis
Samuel, Mike
Costello, Angela
Ashkan, Keyoumars
Shotbolt, Paul
Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title_full Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title_fullStr Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title_full_unstemmed Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title_short Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Concerns for Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: Preoperative Profiles in a Deep Brain Stimulation Cohort and Postoperative Changes in Three Case Series Reports
title_sort neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric concerns for deep brain stimulation in dystonia: preoperative profiles in a deep brain stimulation cohort and postoperative changes in three case series reports
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6318105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30648047
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3507
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