Psychiatric disorders in multiple sclerosis patients.

نویسندگان

  • Mirella Martins Fazzito
  • Sérgio Semeraro Jordy
  • Charles Peter Tilbery
چکیده

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease showing variable clinical presentation. Optic neuritis is the most common symptom, followed by motor and sensitive manifestations. It is known that this disease may be related to several psychiatric disorders, especially depression. In this study we will discribe 5 cases of MS patients harboring psychiatric disorder related or unchained by the disease itself.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

دوره 67 3A  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009