Persistent organic personality change as rare psychiatric manifestation of MELAS syndrome [5]

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 250, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1501-1502

  Köller, Hubertus ^a   Kornischka, Jürgen ^a   Neuen Jacob, Eva ^a   Saleh, Andreas ^a   Von Giesen, Hans Jürgen ^a   Schmiedel, Janet ^b   Reichmann, Heinz ^b   Hartung, Hans Peter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; POINT MUTATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 1642512286     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-003-0260-8     Document Type: Letter

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