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Cognitive and emotional disturbances in systemic lupus erythematosus
E M Wekking1, J C Nossent, A P van Dam
1Psychiatric Center Bavo, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Do patients with central nervous system systemic lupus erythematosus (CNS-SLE) demonstrate more cognitive and emotional disturbances than SLE patients without cerebral involvement (non-CNS-SLE) and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? Test results indicated that CNS-SLE patients performed less well on two concentration subtests in comparison with both non-CNS-SLE and RA patients and scored higher on three psychopathology scales (borderline personality symptoms, dysthymic symptoms and psychotic depression). The representativity and reliability of the present results will be discussed.