Mental Symptoms Associated With Brain Tumor

Our purpose in this investigation was to ascertain the frequency of occurrence, the nature and the localizing value of mental symptoms in cases of tumor of the brain. In previous communications we described the mental symptoms in patients with tumor of the frontal lobe¹and temporal lobe²and compared them with the mental symptoms of patients with tumor located belo'w the tentorium.³In the present paper we are reporting in brief the psychic disturbances in patients with a tumor located in any part of the brain. The study was based on personal observations of 530 patients with expanding intracranial lesions in whom the diagnosis was confirmed by operation, necropsy or both. The location of the tumors and their histologic nature are recorded in table 1. Abnormal mental reactions play an important rôle in the symptomatology of tumor of the brain. The reactions may occur at any time