Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis
Slovenia is an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis, a disease that affects many organic systems. Decline in cognitive abilities and emotional changes can appear in acute and chronic stage of the disease beside somatic difficulties. Early antibiotic therapy is of great importance in recovery. Attention...
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Slovenian Psychologists' Association
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| description | Slovenia is an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis, a disease that affects many organic systems. Decline in cognitive abilities and emotional changes can appear in acute and chronic stage of the disease beside somatic difficulties. Early antibiotic therapy is of great importance in recovery. Attention and concentration deficits, memory deficits, impaired executive functioning, depression and other symptoms reduce work efficiency and life quality of people with Lyme borreliosis. Neuropsychological deficits can be explained with central nervous system impairment and partly also with reactive psychological factors. On account of symptomatic complexity, broad differential diagnostic and unreliable diagnostic technology neuropsychological evaluation can help to correctly diagnose and accurately treat this disease, and thus to enable appropriate cognitive rehabilitation and psychotherapeutic assistance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f08a09d45f4d4a248fa610ba0bc297b42022-12-21T23:45:25ZengSlovenian Psychologists' AssociationPsihološka Obzorja2350-51412001-09-0110311912656Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosisKatja PrušaSlovenia is an endemic area for Lyme borreliosis, a disease that affects many organic systems. Decline in cognitive abilities and emotional changes can appear in acute and chronic stage of the disease beside somatic difficulties. Early antibiotic therapy is of great importance in recovery. Attention and concentration deficits, memory deficits, impaired executive functioning, depression and other symptoms reduce work efficiency and life quality of people with Lyme borreliosis. Neuropsychological deficits can be explained with central nervous system impairment and partly also with reactive psychological factors. On account of symptomatic complexity, broad differential diagnostic and unreliable diagnostic technology neuropsychological evaluation can help to correctly diagnose and accurately treat this disease, and thus to enable appropriate cognitive rehabilitation and psychotherapeutic assistance.http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2001_3/prusa.pdfLyme borreliosisBorrelia burgdorferineuroborreliosisneuropsychological deficitsneuropsychological diagnostics |
| spellingShingle | Katja Pruša Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis Psihološka Obzorja Lyme borreliosis Borrelia burgdorferi neuroborreliosis neuropsychological deficits neuropsychological diagnostics |
| title | Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis |
| title_full | Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis |
| title_fullStr | Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis |
| title_short | Neuropsychological deficits in patients with Lyme borreliosis |
| title_sort | neuropsychological deficits in patients with lyme borreliosis |
| topic | Lyme borreliosis Borrelia burgdorferi neuroborreliosis neuropsychological deficits neuropsychological diagnostics |
| url | http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2001_3/prusa.pdf |
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