Adult-Onset Adrenoleukodystrophy Heralded by Auditory Hallucinations and Delusions

Psychosomatics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 492-493

  Furuhashi, Yuko ^a   Ishikawa, Masashi ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saginuma Park Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BEHENIC ACID; LIGNOCERIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; LORENZO OIL; OLANZAPINE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT; AMNESIA; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DELUSION; DEMYELINATION; DISORIENTATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW FAT DIET; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION; BRAIN; HALLUCINATION; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; DELUSIONS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856186474     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.01.033     Document Type: Letter

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