Medalia A, Galynker I, Scheinberg I H
Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Biol Psychiatry. 1992 Apr 15;31(8):823-6. doi: 10.1016/0006-3223(92)90313-o.
Measures of the degree of motor, psychiatric, and declarative memory disability were made in neurologically impaired and neurologically asymptomatic patients with Wilson's disease. All three types of disability were significantly greater in the neurologically impaired than in the asymptomatic patients. There was no significant interaction between these disabilities in the impaired patients suggesting that motor, psychiatric, and memory symptoms are three relatively independent sequelae of the copper-induced central nervous system (CNS) damage that underlies Wilson's disease.
