Two Cases Of Multiple Sclerosis Accompanying Psychiatric Symptoms

Ayşegül Şengel; Ufuk Ergün; Abidin Erdal; Serpil Vargel; Dilek Ertaş; Levent İnan

Ayşegül Şengel¹, Ufuk Ergün², Abidin Erdal², Serpil Vargel³, Dilek Ertaş⁴, Levent İnan²

¹Psychiatry Clinic, Oncology Education And Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
²Neurology Clinic, Ministry Of Health Education And Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Keywords: multiple sclerosis, psychosis, symptoms of relapses

Abstract

Scientific bacground: It has been reported that; Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may be presented with many psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety, depression, mania and psychosis. MS cases, presented with psychiatric symptoms were also reported.

Cases: Two MS cases, diagnosed as psychotic and bipolar disorder respectively, were reported in this paper. Both of the cases were responded to the steroid treatment, and neurological and psychiatric examinations were found to be normal after one month.

CONCLUSION: MS cases might be presented with psychiatric complaints and symptoms except neurological ones. We conclude that; psychiatric evaluation as well as the neurological evaluation is important in the MS cases presented with psychiatric symptoms;