Citation

Bout A, Aarab C, Boujraf S, Aalouane R. Clin. Schizophr. Relat. Psychoses 2021; 15(2).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Walsh Medical Media)

DOI

10.3371/CSRP.BAAC.042321

PMID

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Abstract

In 1998, Schmahmann described an affective and cognitive cerebellar syndrome. Studies have shown that cerebellum plays a major role in higher functions since involved in cognitive and emotional processing. Papers reported studies of the direct implication of cerebellum in the psychopathology of described psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Furthermore, a series of cases reported that posterior fossa malformations appear to be related to psychiatric disorders suggestive of schizophrenia. In this paper, we report a case of Dandy Walker Varient revealed by melancholic depression with suicidal ideation in a patient followed for schizophrenia. We then review the evidences supporting a possible link between the two conditions. Copyright: © 2021 Bout A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; cognition; suicide; male; Review; case report; insomnia; Schizophrenia; suicidal ideation; depression; schizophrenia; behavior change; anorexia; mental disease; clinical article; cognitive defect; fluoxetine; hallucination; quetiapine; sleep disorder; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; psychomotor disorder; cerebellum disease; drug dose increase; young adult; hypoplasia; Cerebellum; Dandy walker; Dandy Walker syndrome