title: Neuro-Behcet's disease presenting with amnesia and frontal dysfunction.
abstract: We report a 48-year-old patient with neuro-Behcet's disease who presented with the combination of severe memory impairment and frontal/executive dysfunction. The clinical feature mimicked that of diencephalic amnesic syndrome. The MRI and SPECT findings supported the notion that the thalamus and related subcortical-frontal connection was responsible for this patient's problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 5-11-11 Kita-Karasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8577, Japan. mimura@med.showa-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mimura
authors.forename: Motoichiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kashima
mesh_terms: D000647:Amnesia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000523:psychology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D003545:Cysteine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014145:Trail Making Test
chemical_list: D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; C059659:technetium Tc 99m bicisate; D003545:Cysteine