Psychiatric Symptoms in Brain Tumor

Abstract

Patients with structural brain lesions may sometimes present with a variety of psychiatric symptoms for a prolonged period of time without any neurologic symptoms and signs. In such cases the underlying pathology of such clinical picture can be easily misinterpreted to be functional in origin and can delay actual diagnosis as well as alter the prognosis. This report presents a case of elderly gentleman who presented with sudden onset atypical psychiatric manifestations with alteration in mood and behaviour which was diagnosed later on secondary to brain tumour involving both frontal lobes and corpus callosum. Hence we suggest that any atypical psychiatric manifestation in elderly patients warrant a detail evaluation accompanied by neuro-imaging to rule out possible organic cause including tumours.

Keywords: Brain Tumour, Neuropsychiatry, Mood and Behavioural disorders