Document 0486
 DOCN  M9610486
 TI    [Psychoses in multiple sclerosis--a reevaluation]
 DT    9601
 AU    Schifferdecker M; Krahl A; Krekel NO; Klinik und Poliklinik fur
       Neurologie und Psychiatrie,; Universtitat zu Koln.
 SO    Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 1995 Aug;63(8):310-9. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/96058319
 AB    With the aim of reaching a new classification of psychoses with multiple
       sclerosis we reviewed the twentieth century literature for observations
       with regard to the subject, as well as 688 medical records of our
       patients, looking for the occurrence of paranoid and hallucinatory
       psychoses in the course of multiple sclerosis. Special attention was
       paid to the occurrence of cycloid psychoses. With multiple sclerosis,
       psychoses on the whole--but cycloid psychoses in particular--occur more
       frequently than in the general population. Women are affected just as
       frequently as men. Cycloid psychoses occur earlier in the course of the
       multiple sclerosis than the other psychoses; here, hallucinations occur
       with a higher frequency. Similar as in the case of HIV-infection,
       multiple sclerosis can act as a trigger of a cycloid psychosis. The
       results of our study indicate that men and women experience this disease
       as similarly threatening. A shortcoming of critical faculties based on
       the organic disease is an additional factor that favours the outbreak of
       such a psychosis.
 DE    Adult  Bipolar Disorder/DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY  Cyclothymic
       Disorder/DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY  Diagnosis, Differential  English Abstract
       Female  Hallucinations/DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY  Human  Male  Middle Age
       Multiple Sclerosis/*DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY  Organic Mental Disorders,
       Psychotic/*DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY  Paranoid Disorders/DIAGNOSIS/PSYCHOLOGY
       JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW, TUTORIAL

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