title: Focal neurocognitive dysfunctions in abstinence delirium: a case report.
abstract: Due to abrupt interruption of hidden benzodiazepine-use, a 68-year-old woman developed a full-blown abstinence delirium characterized by epileptic seizures and progressive focal neurocognitive symptoms. The evolution of such rare neuro-linguistic phenomena as an echoism, palilalia and glossomania associated with a progressive visuo-perceptive syndrome and a visual hallucinosis are for the first time reported within the context of withdrawal. Notwithstanding the lack of any neuroradiological evidence for a morphological lesion in the clinically expected brain regions, the anatomo-clinical hypothesis of a focal frontal and parieto-occipital dysfunction was explicitly corroborated by repeated 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT findings.
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mariën
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Borggreve
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Spanoghe
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saerens
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Pickut
authors.affiliation: *Departement Neurologie en Nucleaire Geneeskunde Algemeen Ziekenhuis Middelheim,Antwerpen.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Deyn