Sutar Roshan, Ray Anirban, Sheshadri Shekhar P
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Psychol Med. 2017 Mar-Apr;39(2):202-204. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.203115.
Leukodystrophy is a group of demyelinating neurodegenerative diseases of brain with varied presentation and multiple etiologies. Prognosis is predominantly dismal. Misdiagnosis and wrong treatment are common in this group of rare neurological disorders, especially when it presents with psychiatric symptoms. In this case, importance of neurological and radiological evaluation and need for high diagnostic suspicion in treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders is highlighted.
脑白质营养不良是一组脑脱髓鞘神经退行性疾病,表现多样,病因众多。预后大多不佳。在这组罕见的神经系统疾病中,误诊和错误治疗很常见,尤其是当出现精神症状时。在本病例中,强调了神经学和放射学评估的重要性以及对难治性精神障碍进行高度诊断怀疑的必要性。