title: Depression and dementia of cerebrovascular origin.
abstract: We report the case of a patient who presented various psychiatric syndromes at the time of evaluation - partial complex epileptic seizures, personality change, and severe depression, which eventually progressed to dementia - resulting from multiple cerebral infarctions of probable neuro-angiopathic origin, of unknown etiology. Aspects related to depression following cerebrovascular accidents, as well as how cerebrovascular accidents can result in different disorders depending on the variables, are discussed based on the data from current literature.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.
authors.forename: Paulo Germano
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Marmorato
authors.forename: Ricardo Alberto
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Silvia Belk
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Keila
authors.forename: Doris Hupfeld
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Moreno
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology*; D017029:Epilepsy, Complex Partial / Q000209:etiology; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010296:Parietal Lobe; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000209:etiology