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Reducing State Anxiety Using Working Memory Maintenance
Published on: July 19, 2017
[Organic Anxiety Disorder in Posterior Cortical Atrophy]
Denise Linsmayer1, Christoph Kindler1, Wiebke Anheier1
1Helios Dr.-Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Wiesbaden.
Abstract:
We report on a 54-year-old patient who described a progressive anxiety disorder additionally recurrent sight disorders associated with room-tilt illusions and subjective visual field defects. She also reported disturbances of concentration and attention and of a modified typeface accompanied by difficulty in writing with an increase of grammatical errors. Based on the case, the relevant anamnestic and clinical data, the neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings and also differential diagnosis of the posterior cortical atrophy, a rare neurodegenerative disease, will be discussed.
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