Review: Psychopathology in multiple sclerosis: diagnosis, prevalence and treatment

Review: Psychopathology in multiple sclerosis: diagnosis, prevalence and treatment

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Demyelinization of nerve fibres not only affects the motor and sensory systems functionally, but may also cause psychopathological signs and symptoms. In addition to the psychiatric manifestations of MS, many p...

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Main Authors: Ida S. Haussleiter, Martin Brüne, Georg Juckel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2009-01-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1756285608100325
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spelling doaj-e5630ad0496740d89067e00d2bacdbc52020-11-25T03:06:44ZengSAGE PublishingTherapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders1756-28562009-01-01210.1177/1756285608100325Review: Psychopathology in multiple sclerosis: diagnosis, prevalence and treatmentIda S. HaussleiterMartin BrüneGeorg JuckelMultiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Demyelinization of nerve fibres not only affects the motor and sensory systems functionally, but may also cause psychopathological signs and symptoms. In addition to the psychiatric manifestations of MS, many patients have reactive psychological problems that are often hard to distinguish from the `organic' causation of psychopathology. In any event, psychiatric comorbidity in MS deserves greater clinical attention than has been previously paid, because the presence of psychopathology may have deleterious effects on the disease process and impair coping with disability.https://doi.org/10.1177/1756285608100325
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description Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Demyelinization of nerve fibres not only affects the motor and sensory systems functionally, but may also cause psychopathological signs and symptoms. In addition to the psychiatric manifestations of MS, many patients have reactive psychological problems that are often hard to distinguish from the `organic' causation of psychopathology. In any event, psychiatric comorbidity in MS deserves greater clinical attention than has been previously paid, because the presence of psychopathology may have deleterious effects on the disease process and impair coping with disability.
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