NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

By EMILY LEWIS

ON THE OTHER HAND, PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS SUCH AS NEUROTIC COMPLAINTS, MOOD CHANGES, HALLUCINATION, DELUSION, AND BEHAVIORAL AND PERSONALITY CHANGES COULD POSSIBLY BE CAUSED BY CEREBRAL DISORDERS THEREFORE, THESE SYMPTOMS COULD BE CALLED “POSSIBLE” NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS (FIG 3) NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS COULD BE THE EARLIEST SYMPTOMS IN CEREBRAL DISORDERS MILD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS, SUCH AS ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, APATHY, AND PERSON- ALITY CHANGES, OCCASIONALLY PRECEDE DEMENTIA IN CEREBRAL DISORDERS (FIG 4) MILD PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS COULD BE THE EARLIEST MANIFESTATIONS OF THE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS OCCASIONALLY THESE SYMPTOMS ARE COMPOSED OF VAGUE SOMATIC COMPLAINTS PATIENTS WITH NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS COMMONLY COMPLAIN OF SUBJECTIVE WORK DIFFICULTIES, FORGETTING THE LOCATION OF OBJECTS, DECREASED FUNCTIONING IN DEMANDING EMPLOYMENT SETTINGS, AND DIFFICULTY IN TRAVELING TO NEW LOCATIONS IN THE EARLY STAGE OF THEIR ILLNESS HYPOCHONDRIA, ANXIETY, IRRITABILITY, DYSPHORIA, DYSTHYMIA, DEPRESSIVE MOOD, AGITATION, EUPHORIA, HYPOMANIC MOOD, FLATTENING OF AFFECTS, SLEEP DISORDER, APATHY, AND PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION MAY OCCUR, PRECEDING DEMENTIA, IN THE INITIAL STAGE OF BRAIN DISEASE PROBABLE AND POSSIBLE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS 1 PROBABLE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS –COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT –DISTURBANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2 POSSIBLE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS –NEUROTIC COMPLAINTS, ANXIETY –MOOD CHANGES –PSYCHOTIC STATES: HALLUCINATION & DELUSION –BEHAVIORAL AND PERSONALITY CHANGES FIG 3 PROBABLE AND POSSIBLE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS 1) NEUROTIC SYMPTOMS: HEADACHE, VERTIGO, DIZZINESS, FATIGUEABILITY, LISTLESSNESS, PAIN, WEAKNESS, HYPOCHONDRIA, ANXIETY, IRRITABILITY, 2) MOOD DISODERS: DYSPHORIA, DYSTHYMIA, DEPRESSIVE MOOD, AGITATION, EUPHORIA, HYPOMANIC MOOD, FLATTENING OF AFFECT, SLEEP DISORDERS, 3) BEHAVIORS: APATHY, PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION, SUBJECTIVE WORK DIFFICULTIES, 4) COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: FORGETTING LOCATION OF OBJECTS, DECREASED FUNCTIONING IN DEMANDING EMPLOYMENT SETTINGS, AND DIFFICULTY IN TRAVELING TO NEW LOCATIONS MILD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS, PRECEDE DEMENTIA FIG 4 MILD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS THAT PRECEDE DEMENTIA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS