AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS

Abstract

100 disseminated sclerosis patients and 100 control patients were tested for premorbid personality, emotional antecedents and subsequent psychiatric emotional and psychiatric changes. No specific premorbid personality type was defined. Emotional stress was significant in some patients, exacerbating the symptoms within 1 min. Anxiety, hysteria and psychosis were not significant, but emotional lability and intellectual impairment occurred, notably in the presence of marked neurological disability.