Personality disorders improved after arachnoid cyst neurosurgery, then rediagnosed as 'minor' organic personality disorders

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 196-200

  Bechter, Karl ^a   Wittek, Rainer ^a   Seitz, Klaus ^a   Antoniadis, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cyst fenestration; Frontal brain syndrome; Minor personality disorder; Organic personality disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449246925     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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