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Self-Neglect and Frontal Lobe Dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Martin W. Orrell ,
Barbara J. Sahakian  and
Klaus Bergmann
Martin W. Orrell*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Barbara J. Sahakian
Affiliation:
Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Klaus Bergmann
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

An elderly lady, of superior verbal intelligence and with no severe psychiatric condition, severely neglected herself, and required prolonged day patient care. Brain scans showed selective frontal atrophy, and both traditional and new computerised neuropsychological testing demonstrated severe frontal dysfunction.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 101 - 105
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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