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Successful methylphenidate treatment of apathy after subcortical infarcts
M D Watanabe1, E M Martin, O A DeLeon
1Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois-Chicago 60612, USA.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A patient with prominent apathy secondary to multiple subcortical infarcts was treated successfully with methylphenidate. SPECT and reaction time testing showed selective improvement of frontal system function, consistent with a recent model of frontal-subcortical circuits and behavior.