Adult-type metachromatic leukodystrophy with a compound heterozygote mutation showing character change and dementia

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 425-428

  Fukutani, Yuken ^a   Noriki, Yoko ^a   Sasaki, Kazuo ^a   Isaki, Kiminori ^a   Kuriyama, Masaru ^a   Kurosawa, Kenji ^b   Ida, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character change; Compound heterozygote mutation; Dementia; Frontal lobe syndrome; Metachromatic leukodystrophy; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CEREBROSIDE SULFATASE; GLYCINE; IOFETAMINE I 123; ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THETA RHYTHM; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSIDE-SULFATASE; CHARACTER; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MUTATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA, DISORGANIZED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032838024     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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