Case series: acute mood symptoms associated with posterior fossa lesions in children.
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.
Turkel
Susan Beckwitt
SB
Department of Psychiatry, Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA. sbturkel@hsc.usc.edu <sbturkel@hsc.usc.edu>
Shu Chen
Lan
L
Nelson
Marvin D
MD
Hyder
Douglas
D
Gilles
Floyd H
FH
Woodall
Linda
L
Braslow
Kenneth
K
Tavaré
C Jane
CJ
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