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Abstract
DOPAMİNE AGONİST RESPONSİVE ABULİA: A CASE REPORT AND LİTERATURE REVİEW
Hakan Şilek*, Ayça Serap TUNCER, Bahar Erbaş
ABSTRACT
Abulia is a "syndrome of hypofunction," characterized by apathy, slowness of thought (bradyphrenia), blunting of emotional responses and response to external stimuli decreased or complete lack of initiative , spontaneeity and drive. We describe a case of a socially active 73-year-old male patient who presented with symptoms of abulia which may have occurred due to damage of the frontosubcortical circuits following an cardiac mitral valve replacement. The patient's symptoms improved dramatically following treatment with pramipexole.
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