Late Onset Psychosis Following Traumatic Brain lnjury | 2005, Volume 11 - Issue 3

Ayşe KUTLU¹, Barış KORKMAZ¹, Gürkan ODABAŞI², Levent KAYAALP², Veysi DEMİRBİLEK¹

¹İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBUL
²İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk Psikiyatrisi Anabilim Dalı, İSTANBUL

Keywords: traumatic brain injury, psychosis, basal ganglia

Abstract

Background: Psychosis is a relatively rare, but serious complication of TBI. Psychotic syndromes occur more frequently in individuals who have had a TBI than in the general population. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may include late onset psychiatric problems including the development of schizophrenia like psychosis. Objectives: We report a patient with psychotic features developed years after the TBI and compare it with the literature findings. Discussion: The neuropsychiatric symptoms of the reported case may be a late onset complication of TBI as a consequence of the basal ganglia damage.