Early Mental Changes in Patients with Astrocytomas with Special Reference to Anxiety and Epilepsy
作者:
Asa Lilja,
Leif G. Salford,
期刊:
Psychopathology
(Karger Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 30,
issue 6
页码: 316-323
ISSN:0254-4962
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1159/000285074
出版商: S. Karger AG
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
This study of 47 patients with low- and high-grade gliomas retrospectively focuses on the patients’ history with regard to affective and cognitive disturbances as well as to the presence of epileptic manifestations. Early emotional changes with a sudden onset were common in both patient groups, especially panic-like anxiety. It is suggested that patients with a high-grade glioma may present with affective disturbances with a sudden onset, while such disturbances in patients with low-grade gliomas could be of epilepti-form origin. It is also suggested that the biochemical bases of anxiety and epilepsy in glioma patients could be analyzed to understand underlying biopsychological mechanisms of malignant brain tumors.
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