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Focal neurocognitive dysfunctions in abstinence delirium : a case report
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Abstract
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| Due to abrupt interruption of hidden benzodiazepine-use, a 68-year-old woman developed a full-blown abstinence delirium characterized by epileptic seizures and progressive focal neurocognitive symptoms. The evolution of such rare neurolinguistic phenomena as an echoism, palilalia and glossomania associated with a progressive visuo-perceptive syndrome and a visual hallucinosis are for the first time reported within the context of withdrawal. Notwithstanding the lack of any neuroradiological evidence for a morphological lesion in the clinically expected brain regions, the anatomo-clinical hypothesis of a focal frontal and parieto-occipital dysfunction was explicitly corroborated by repeated Tc-99m-HMPAO SPECT findings. |
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Language
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Dutch
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Source (journal)
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Acta neuropsychiatrica. - Leiderdorp, 1989, currens
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Publication
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Leiderdorp
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1997
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ISSN
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0924-2708
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1601-5215
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DOI
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10.1017/S0924270800034657
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9
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(1997)
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A1997XZ75500002
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