Pathological gambling, delusional parasitosis and adipsia as a post-haemorrhagic syndrome: A case report

Neurocase

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 385-389

  Floris, Gianluca ^a   Cannas, Antonino ^a   Melis, Monica ^a   Solla, Paolo ^a   Marrosu, Maria Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adipsia; Cerebral haematoma; Delusional parasitosis; Orbitofrontal ventromedial areas; Pathological gambling

Indexed keywords

OLANZAPINE; SODIUM;

ADIPSIA; AGED; AMNESIA; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DYSPHORIA; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABILITY; LOGORRHEA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PARASITOSIS; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

AGED; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELUSIONS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; PARASITES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 55849114418     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802385418     Document Type: Article

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