Depression and dementia of cerebrovascular origin

Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo. 2002 Jan-Feb;57(1):25-30. doi: 10.1590/s0041-87812002000100005.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Infarction / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Dementia / etiology*
  • Depression / etiology*
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / etiology
  • Frontal Lobe
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Parietal Lobe
  • Personality Disorders / etiology