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. 1981 Jan-Mar;23(1):82–85.

DEPRESSION IN WILSON'S DISEASE

R S Pandey 1, H S Swamy 2, K N Sreenivas 3, C J John 4
PMCID: PMC3013193  PMID: 22058523

SUMMARY

This study comprise of 23 patients of Wilson's Disease, who were assessed individually by a psychiatrist and neurologist separately. Clinically discernable psychiatric symptoms were detected in 11 patients. Depressed affect was the commonest finding in the series. While four out of five young patients showed depressive symptomatology, none of the six patients showed any depression. All four patients who had severely depressed affect were also patients who had most severe extrapyramidal features.

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