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Depression and dementia of cerebrovascular origin
Paulo Germano Marmorato1, Ricardo Alberto Moreno, Silvia Belk Keila
1Psychiatric Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.
Revista Do Hospital Das Clinicas
|August 10, 2002
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient who presented various psychiatric syndromes at the time of evaluation - partial complex epileptic seizures, personality change, and severe depression, which eventually progressed to dementia - resulting from multiple cerebral infarctions of probable neuro-angiopathic origin, of unknown etiology. Aspects related to depression following cerebrovascular accidents, as well as how cerebrovascular accidents can result in different disorders depending on the variables, are discussed based on the data from current literature.