Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis and Dandy-Walker Variant Comorbidity: Case Report

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Dandy-Walker variant is a developmental malformation consisting of cerebellar hypoplasia and cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle.
Previous research has proposed a possible role for the cerebellum in cognition and in schizophrenia. In this paper we report a schizophrenia-like psychotic disorder in a 30 year-old woman with Dandy-Walker variant. The patient was treated with risperidone 6 mg/day, biperiden4 mg/day and risperidone depot 50 mg injections fortnightly, and most of the symptoms were ameliorated within 2 months. Thesimilar cognitive profile to populations with cerebellar pathology and rarity of the condition strongly suggests that there may be directrelationship between cerebellar pathology and appearence of psychotic symptoms.

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