An OCD Patient Presenting with a Cerebellum Venous Variant in a Family with a Strong Schizophrenia Loading: A Case Report

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Bruno Trancas¹  Graça Cardoso¹  Nuno Borja-Santos¹  Miguel Palma¹  Catarina Klut¹ 

[1] Drs. Palma, Borja-Santos, Trancas, and Klut are from Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca, EPE, Amadora, Portugal; and Dr. Cardoso is from Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.

关键词: Psychiatry;    obsessive-compulsive disorder;    schizophrenia;    cerebellum;    hoarding;   

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学科分类：精神健康和精神病学

来源: Matrix Medical Communications, LLC

【 摘 要 】

The role of cerebellar pathology in psychiatric symptoms has long been recognized. Cerebellar pathology has been associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder pathophysiology, particularly with compulsive hoarding. Likewise, some cerebellum abnormalities have been described in schizophrenia, as well as in comorbidity between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. The authors report the case of a 32-year-old woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a cerebellum development variant in a family with a strong schizophrenia loading. This case emphasizes the probable role of the cerebellum in the pathophysiology of both obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia, and reconsiders the existence of a so called schizo-obsessive subtype of schizophrenia.

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