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P01-373 - Neuroticizing MCI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

M. Roque
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal
P. Carriço
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal
I. Morais
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Coimbra University Hospitals, Coimbra, Portugal

Abstract

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Objectives

The authors describe and compare two cases of sudden onset cognitive impairment in middle-aged women.

Methods

Review of clinical records, laboratorial data, neuropsychological and imagiological studies.

Results

Two women in the sixth decade of life with a similar background and pre-illness state were admitted in the Day Unit for evaluation. They both presented sudden onset of bizarre behaviours, mood swings, unspecific speech disorder, and appetite and sleep pattern deviation, accompanying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on neuropsychological evaluation. Both cases were submitted to intensive studies. Data and long-term follow-up revealed a frontotemporal dementia in one of the cases, and the second woman was shown to have a conversive pseudodementia.

Conclusion

Cognition's progressive deterioration is considered a major marker of dementia, but mild cognitive impairment is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome without criteria on current classifications of disease and limited prognostic value.

Type
Dementia / Gerontopshychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2010
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