Multipl Skleroz ve Psikiyatrik Hastalıklar
Ufuk Emre, Ufuk Ergün, Hülya Yıldız, Özlem Coşkun, Levent E. İnan
Article No:
8
Article Type :
Research
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease that is characterised with central nervous system inflammation, sclerotic plaque and axonal demyelination (1). lts major symptoms are weakness and fatigue, paresthesias visual impairment, deep sensory impairment, ataxia, cognitive impairment, bowel, bladder and sexual function disturbances and emotional variations (1,2). Some degree of psychopathology has been shown in up to two-thirds of MS patients (3). Psychiatric impairment was found in 15-90 percent of patients (4). The psychiatric impairments may vary from depression or euphoria to psychotic impairment.
Keywords :
Multible sclerosis, depression, psychiatric disorders
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2006;19:46-49
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