Erschienen in:
13.06.2019 | Review
Psychiatric disorders in multiple sclerosis
verfasst von:
Maddalena Sparaco, Luigi Lavorgna, Simona Bonavita
Erschienen in:
Journal of Neurology
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Ausgabe 1/2021
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Abstract
Background
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by a large spectrum of symptoms, involving all functional systems. Psychiatric symptoms are common in people with MS (pwMS) having an important impact on quality of life and on some features of MS (fatigue, sleep, disability, adherence to disease-modifying drugs). The main psychiatric disturbances in MS are depressive, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenic and obsessive–compulsive syndromes.
Methods
Literature search for original articles and review in the databases, including PubMed and Scopus from 1959 to 2019.
Results and conclusion
Studies answering the aim of this review were selected and reported. Epidemiological and clinical aspects of psychiatric syndromes (PS) in MS as well as self-report diagnostic scales and radiological correlates of PS in MS are described. Moreover, some radiological studies about primary psychiatric disorders (PD) are reported to underline how gray matter atrophy, white matter abnormalities and corpus callosum involvement in these diseases, as features in common with MS, may explain the more frequent occurrence of PD in MS than in the general population.