Aripiprazole treatment of psychosis in a child with posterior fossa retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-325

  Kalapatapu, Raj K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; QUETIAPINE;

ARACHNOID CYST; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; POSTERIOR FOSSA RETROCEREBELLAR ARACHNOID CYST; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PIPERAZINES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUINOLONES;

EID: 67650875888     PISSN: 10445463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cap.2008.077     Document Type: Letter

References (42)

1. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, Text Revision (DSMIV- TR). Washington (DC): American Psychiatric Association, 2000.
2. Andreasen NC, Paradiso S, O'Leary DS: ''Cognitive dysmetria'' as an integrative theory of schizophrenia: A dysfunction in cortical-subcortical- cerebellar circuitry? Schizophr Bull 24:203-218, 1998.
3. Arai H, Sato K. Posterior fossa cysts: Clinical, neuroradiologicaland surgical features. Childs Nerv Syst 7:156-164, 1991.
4. Arunkumar MJ, Haran RP, Chandy MJ: Spontaneous fluctuation in the size of a midline posterior fossa arachnoid cyst. Br JNeurosurg 13:326-328, 1999.
5. Bahk WM, Pae CU, Chae JH, Jun TY, Kim KS: A case of brief psychosis associated with an arachnoid cyst. Psychiatry ClinNeurosci 56:203-205, 2002.
6. Choi JU, Kim DS: Pathogenesis of arachnoid cyst: Congenital ortraumatic? Pediatr Neurosurg 29:260-266, 1998.
7. Courchesne E, Yeung-Courchesne R, Press GA, Hesselink JR, Jernigan TL: Hypoplasia of cerebellar vermal lobules VI andVII in autism. N Engl J Med 318:1349-1354, 1988.
8. Cullum CM, Heaton RK, Harris MJ, Jeste DV: Neurobehavioral and neurodiagnostic aspects of late-onset psychosis. Arch ClinNeuropsychol 9:371-382, 1994.
9. da Silva JA, Alves A, Talina M, Carreiro S, Guimaraes J, Xavier M: Arachnoid cyst in a patient with psychosis: Case report.Ann Gen Psychiatry 6:16, 2007.
10. Daskalakis ZJ, Christensen BK, Fitzgerald PB, Fountain SI, Chen R: Reduced cerebellar inhibition in schizophrenia: A preliminarystudy. Am J Psychiatry 162:1203-1205, 2005.
11. Eastwood SL, Cotter D, Harrison PJ: Cerebellar synaptic proteinexpression in schizophrenia. Neuroscience 105:219-229, 2001.
12. Eastwood SL, Law AJ, Everall IP, Harrison PJ: The axonal chemorepellant semaphorin 3A is increased in the cerebellum in schizophrenia and may contribute to its synaptic pathology.Mol Psychiatry 8:148-155, 2003.
13. Erdincler P, Kaynar MY, Bozkus H, Ciplak N: Posterior fossaarachnoid cysts. Br J Neurosurg 13:10-17, 1999.
14. Galassi E, Tognetti F, Frank F, Fagioli L, Nasi MT, Gaist G:Infratentorial arachnoid cysts. J Neurosurg 63:210-217, 1985.
15. Gelabert-Gonzalez M. [Intracranial arachnoid cysts]. Rev Neurol39:1161-1166, 2004.
16. Gosalakkal JA: Intracranial arachnoid cysts in children: A review of pathogenesis, clinical features, and management. PediatrNeurol 26:93-98, 2002.
17. Heath RG, Franklin DE, Shraberg D: Gross pathology of the cerebellum in patients diagnosed and treated as functionalpsychiatric disorders. J Nerv Ment Dis 167:585-592, 1979.
18. Heidrich A, Schmidtke A, Lesch KP, Hofmann E, Becker T: Cerebellar arachnoid cyst in a firesetter: The weight of organiclesions in arson. J Psychiatry Neurosci 21:202-206, 1996.
19. Holroyd S, Reiss AL, Bryan RN: Autistic features in Joubert syndrome: A genetic disorder with agenesis of the cerebellarvermis. Biol Psychiatry 29:287-294, 1991.
20. Jacobsen LK, Giedd JN, Berquin PC, Krain AL, Hamburger SD, Kumra S, Rapoport JL: Quantitative morphology of the cerebellum and fourth ventricle in childhood-onset schizophrenia.Am J Psychiatry 154:1663-1669, 1997.
21. Keller A, Castellanos FX, Vaituzis AC, Jeffries NO, Giedd JN, Rapoport JL: Progressive loss of cerebellar volume in childhood-onset schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 160:128-133, 2003.
22. Kohn R, Lilly RB, Sokol MS, Malloy PF: Psychiatric presentations of intracranial cysts. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1:60-66, 1989.
23. Konarski JZ, McIntyre RS, Grupp LA, Kennedy SH: Is the cerebellum relevant in the circuitry of neuropsychiatric disorders?J Psychiatry Neurosci 30:178-186, 2005.
24. Kyriakopoulos M, Vyas NS, Barker GJ, Chitnis XA, Frangou S: A diffusion tensor imaging study of white matter in early-onsetschizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 63:519-523, 2008.
25. Lanczik M, Fritze J, Classen W, Ihl R, Maurer K: Schizophrenialike psychosis associated with an arachnoid cyst visualized bymapping of EEG and P300. Psychiatry Res 29:421-423, 1989.
26. Marin-Sanabria EA, Yamamoto H, Nagashima T, Kohmura E: Evaluation of the management of arachnoid cyst of the posterior fossa in pediatric population: Experience over 27 years.Childs Nerv Syst 23:535-542, 2007.
27. Miller DD, Andreasen NC, O'Leary DS, Watkins GL, Boles Ponto LL, Hichwa RD: Comparison of the effects of risperidone and haloperidol on regional cerebral blood flow inschizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 49:704-715, 2001.
28. Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Hurt J, Honer WG, Harrington CR, Wischik CM: Loss of synaptic but not cytoskeletal proteins in the cerebellum of chronic schizophrenics. Neurosci Lett 317:161-165, 2002.
29. Musella R, Elvidge AR: Parkinsonian-like syndrome caused by cyst in posterior fossa. Report of a case. J Neurosurg 21:62-65, 1964.
30. Reyes MG, Gordon A: Cerebellar vermis in schizophrenia.Lancet 2:700-701, 1981.
31. Rossi A, Stratta P, Mancini F, de CS, Casacchia M: Cerebellar vermal size in schizophrenia: A male effect. Biol Psychiatry33:354-357, 1993.
32. Samii M, Carvalho GA, Schuhmann MU, Matthies C: Arachnoidcysts of the posterior fossa. Surg Neurol 51:376-382, 1999.
33. Schmahmann JD: Disorders of the cerebellum: Ataxia, dysmetria of thought, and the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome.J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 16:367-378, 2004.
34. Schmahmann JD, Sherman JC: The cerebellar cognitive affectivesyndrome. Brain 121 (Pt 4):561-579, 1998.
35. Schmahmann JD, Weilburg JB, Sherman JC: The neuropsychiatry of the cerebellum-insights from the clinic. Cerebellum6:254-267, 2007.
36. Stephan KE, Magnotta VA, White T, Arndt S, Flaum M, O'Leary DS, Andreasen NC: Effects of olanzapine on cerebellar functional connectivity in schizophrenia measured by fMRI duringa simple motor task. Psychol Med 31:1065-1078, 2001.
37. Vakis AF, Koutentakis DI, Karabetsos DA, Kalostos GN: Psychosis- like syndrome associated with intermittent intracranial hypertension caused by a large arachnoid cyst of the lefttemporal lobe. Br J Neurosurg 20:156-159, 2006.
38. Vaquero J, Carrillo R, Cabezudo JM, Nombela L, Bravo G: Arachnoid cysts of the posterior fossa. Surg Neurol 16:117-121, 1981.
39. Wang PJ, Lin HC, Liu HM, Tseng CL, Shen YZ: Intracranial arachnoid cysts in children: Related signs and associatedanomalies. Pediatr Neurol 19:100-104, 1998.
40. Wassink TH, Andreasen NC, Nopoulos P: Flaum M. Cerebellar morphology as a predictor of symptom and psychosocialoutcome in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 45:41-48, 1999.
41. Weinman DF: Arachnoidal cysts in the sylvian fissure of thebrain. J Neurosurg 22:185-187, 1965.
42. Wong CW, Ko SF, Wai YY: Arachnoid cyst of the lateral ventricle manifesting positional psychosis. Neurosurgery 32:841-843, 1993.