Neurological and psychiatric disorders in Behҫet’s disease

Ovcharov P.S.; Lisitsyna T.A.; Vel'tishchev D.Iu.; Tardov M.V.; Burenchev D.V.; Alekberova Z.S.; Nasonov E.L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.17116/jnevro20161166176-86

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Abstract:

The data of the literature on epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of Behcet’s disease are presented. Particular attention is paid to international recommendations (2014) on the classification, diagnostic criteria and treatment of neurological symptoms of Behҫet disease.

Keywords:

psychiatric disorders

neurological disorders

depression

neurological Behçet disease

diagnosis

therapy

Authors:

Ovcharov P.S.

Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology, Moscow, Russia

Lisitsyna T.A.

Nauchno-issledovatel'skiĭ institut revmatologii RAMN

Vel'tishchev D.Iu.

Moskovskiĭ NII psikhiatrii

Tardov M.V.

GBUZ "Moskovskiĭ nauchno-prakticheskiĭ tsentr otorinolaringologii im. L.I. Sverzhevskogo" Departamenta zdravookhraneniia Moskvy

Burenchev D.V.

Gorodskaia klinicheskaia bol'nitsa #20, Moskva

ORCID: 0000-0003-2894-6255

Alekberova Z.S.

Nauchno-issledovatel'skiĭ institut revmatologii im. V.A. Nasonovoĭ RAN, Moskva

Nasonov E.L.

"Research Institute of rheumatology n. a. V. A. Nasonova"

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