[Neuropsychological evaluation in a case of multiple sclerosis]. / Evaluación neuropsicológica de un caso de esclerosis múltiple.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: The neuropsychological assessment of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be diagnostically useful to provide a patient's cognitive profile, to observe the spread of the deficit and to identify the peculiar areas that are more or less affected, in order to plan a long-term management and treatment. CLINICAL CASE In this article, we present a case of cognitive dysfunction associated with a progressive MS in a 54 years woman, which was diagnosed six years ago. The magnetic resonance imaging showed demyelinating lesions at the periventricular region, with left predominance, and in the protuberance with signs of cortico-subcortical atrophy. We performed neuropsychological assessment of the main cognitive areas orientation, attention, information processing, memory, general intelligence functioning, language, arithmetic, visual-spatial functioning, motor, executive functioning and personality. CONCLUSIONS: The results obtained point out serious alterations in the information speed processing, long term memory, motor, executive functioning and personality. This results go in a concordant way with the results reported in the consulted bibliography. Likewise, it is commented the resemblance of the cognitive deficit related to a pattern of subcortical dementia.