Progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms and motor impairment

JAMA Neurol. 2014 Jun;71(6):794-8. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.6308.

Abstract

A 42-year-old white man presented with cognitive impairment and behavioral changes followed by rapidly progressive motor and gait impairment. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed striking multifocal white matter signal change, areas of restricted diffusion, diffuse callosal signal change, and atrophy and hyperintensity of the corticospinal tracts. A broad range of etiologies warrant consideration in this case, including degenerative, vascular, inflammatory, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Atrophy / complications
  • Axons / pathology*
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Cognition Disorders / etiology
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging / methods
  • Disease Progression
  • Humans
  • Male