Depression and dementia of cerebrovascular origin.
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.
Marmorato
Paulo Germano
PG
Psychiatric Institute, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.
Moreno
Ricardo Alberto
RA
Keila
Silvia Belk
SB
Moreno
Doris Hupfeld
DH
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