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Psychotic symptoms in dementia associated with motor neuron disease: a pathophysiological hypothesis
1Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil. rnitrini@usp.br
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|November 14, 1998
Abstract:
Three patients with neuropathologically confirmed frontotemporal dementia, motor neuron disease type, manifested hallucinations. In this dementia, the superficial layers of the frontal and temporal cortices are predominantly affected. Hallucinations may emerge as release phenomena secondary to selective laminar cortical involvement.