PMID: 9547212Apr 18, 1998Paper

Psychiatric disorders and cognitive deterioration in Friedreich ataxia

Actas luso-españolas de neurología, psiquiatría y ciencias afines
J L Ayuso MateosB Anciones

Abstract

The present study was designed with the aim of examining the presence of psychiatric diagnosis and intellectual impairment in a sample of patients with Friedreich's ataxia. A consecutive sample of 21 patients presenting with Friedreich's Ataxia were evaluated by means of a neuropsychiatric interview. Only one patient was diagnosed as mentally retarded. Out of the 15 patients of the sample who were evaluated with be WAIS, all of them fell within a normal intellectual range. The idea that Friedreich's Ataxia produces cognitive impairment and serious psychiatric symptoms came from the earliest descriptions of the disease at the beginning of this century, which probably included many patients in their samples who had other diseases.

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