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The Confluence of Psychiatric Symptoms and Neurodegenerative Disease: Impact on Genetic Counseling
Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases can present with a psychiatric prodrome that overlaps with psychiatric symptoms that are not primary to these diseases. When individuals present for predictive testing while experiencing such symptoms, clinicians including genetic counselors, must proceed with c...
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Published in: | Journal of genetic counseling 2017-06, Vol.26 (3), p.435-441 |
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Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases can present with a psychiatric prodrome that overlaps with psychiatric symptoms that are not primary to these diseases. When individuals present for predictive testing while experiencing such symptoms, clinicians including genetic counselors, must proceed with caution and evaluate each situation on a case-by-case basis. Legitimate reasons may exist for moving forward with testing. Additionally predicting the consequences of testing is unrealistic so that the clinicians must do their best to prepare patients for both positive and negative results. A multidisciplinary team following the Huntington disease protocol remains the gold standard care for predictive testing for such patients. We discuss 3 case histories that demonstrate the complex nature of genetic counseling and testing in the presence of psychiatric symptoms, whether emanating from the disease itself or the results of living in an affected family. |
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ISSN: | 1059-7700 1573-3599 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10897-016-0056-5 |