Role of Neuropsychiatric Assessment in Diagnosis and Research

摘要: Although the basal ganglia have traditionally been considered as primarily involved in regulation of motor functioning, their role integration emotions with cognitive and behavior is increasingly recognized. Psychiatric symptoms, including disturbance affect (anxiety depression), perception (hallucinations), thought (delusions), well behavioral personality changes (apathy disinhibition) are commonly observed most diseases. They produce increased suffering distress both for patients themselves caregivers, associated need care. Thus, psychiatric symptoms should not be viewed a secondary or additional feature movement disorders, but rather, representing important inherent aspects these disorders. this true Parkinson’s disease (PD), it even more so several atypical parkinsonian where may represent key features clinical syndrome. For instance, dementia Lewy bodies, visual hallucinations among three cardinal (1), focal lesions caudate, neuropsychiatric occur than disorders (2). Knowledge wide variety having diagnostic skills to identify optimize treatment thus major importance management In addition providing information, they help elucidate relationship between brain circuits symptoms.