Psychic akinesia following bilateral pallidal lesions.
After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality. This picture lasted for twenty days. Placidity and anterograde amnesia persisted, while marked psychic akinesia and abnormal involuntary movements soon appeared. A CT scan disclosed bilateral low density lesions involving the pallidum. The patient showed marked improvement after treatment with bromocriptine.
Starkstein
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SE
Dr. Carrea Institute of Neurological Research, Buenos Aires.
Berthier
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ML
Leiguarda
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D000328:Adult; D001971:Bromocriptine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002249:Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D001971:Bromocriptine