Psychiatric manifestations of Brain Tumours

Brain tumours are found more frequently in patients who have psychiatric and behavioural symptomatology than those who do not.
In fact psychiatric patients are more likely to have brain tumours than are individuals from non psychiatric control groups.
Autopsy findings have shown that unsuspected and undiagnosed brain tumours are found in as much as 3 % of chronic psychiatric patients. This is in contrast to prevalence rates of cerebral tumours in general population is only 0.13%.
Studies have shown that psychiatric & neurocognitive manifestations are earliest signs in ~18% of cases of brain tumours.
There is often an assumption in neuropsychiatrists that certain specific association between brain tumours and psychiatric symptoms. It is now shown that though often there may be a pattern there is no consistency of the association or specificity of the psychiatric symptoms. Anatomical localisation as an important (but only one of the......

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