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Articles for Doctors
A strange case of Comorbidity in a 60-year-old Portuguese war
veteran: War Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Early Fronto-
Temporal Cerebral Atrophy, and Strong Neuropsychological
Symptomatology. A Neuropsychological Review
NOTE: Translated
using software of
translation of
Spanish to English
Abstract
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychiatric disorder
that derives from traumatic events. Although the literature and
clinical reports of PTSD is known along centuries, only in 1980
was recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a
diagnostic category of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
– III. The present article reports the case study of a man
with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, initial signs of fronto-temporal
dementia and other neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric
symptomatology. Decurrent of the neuropsychological evaluation
was possible to detect a variety of alterations in the humour
and personalistic sphere, as well as deficits in orientation,
memory, attention, concentration and also in the functions
regulated by pre-frontal cortex. This study suggests not only
the importance of a deep neuropsychological evaluation, as the
necessity to integrate the deficits showed by the patient with
the evidence from literature.
Author:
Ecuadorian
magazine of neurology
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