The "steroid dementia syndrome": An unrecognized complication of glucocorticoid treatment

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1032, Issue , 2004, Pages 191-194

  Wolkowitz, Owen M ^a   Lupien, Sonia J ^a   Bigler, Erin ^a   Levin, R Bronson ^a   Canick, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Memory; Prednisone; Steroid

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; FENFLURAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENTERMINE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANGER; ARTHRALGIA; ASTHMA; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PARANOIA; PARESTHESIA; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SKIN ATROPHY; STARTLE REFLEX; STEROID DEMENTIA SYNDROME; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 14544275424     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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