title: Case series: acute mood symptoms associated with posterior fossa lesions in children.
abstract: Nineteen children were acutely dysphoric, inattentive, irritable, and sometimes mute following midline posterior fossa neoplasm resection and arteriovenous malformation hemorrhage. These symptoms represent an acute manifestation of the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. The authors aimed to describe the acute psychiatric changes in mood and behavior in children with posterior fossa lesions and to evaluate the relationship of posterior fossa syndrome to cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA. sbturkel@hsc.usc.edu <sbturkel@hsc.usc.edu>
authors.forename: Susan Beckwitt
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Turkel
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shu Chen
authors.forename: Marvin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hyder
authors.forename: Floyd H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Gilles
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Woodall
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Braslow
authors.forename: C Jane
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Tavaré
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015192:Infratentorial Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies