|Won-Hyoung Kim;Young-Soo Lee;Seung-Ho Jung;Hye-Jin Choi;Myung-Ji Lee;Min-Hee Kang;Chul-Eung Kim;Jeong-Seop Lee; and Jae-Nam Bae
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by vertical supranuclear palsy and parkinsonian symptoms. The neuropsychiatric symptoms of PSP include anhedonia, depressed mood and cognitive impairment. Patients with PSP have an increased risk for developing depressive disorders within the next year. However, it is rare to find that major depressive disorder was the antecedent diagnosis of a patient who was later diagnosed with PSP. We present here a patient who suffered from PSP with repetitive falls, a masked face and dysarthria after developing a major depressive disorder.
Progressive supranuclear palsy;Depression;Psychiatric symptoms;Parkin-sonian symptoms.