An autopsy case of myotonic dystrophy with mental disorders and various neuropathologic features

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-55

  Mizukami, Katsuyoshi ^a   Sasaki, Megumi ^a   Baba, Atsuomi ^a   Suzuki, Toshihito ^a   Shiraishi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mental disorders; Myotonic dystrophy; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELUSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSONISM; SEPTIC SHOCK; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; PURKINJE CELLS; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032963925     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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