Manifestations psychopathologiques dans le syndrome de Joubert

Results showed a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders and an inter-individual variability. Indeed, five subjects out of six had psychiatric disorders: anxious disorders (social phobia, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder), depression, psychotic disorder unspecified, pervasive developmental disorder, conduct disorder, tics, enuresis. For two subjects, intellectual disability was associated with autistic behaviors but only one of the two filled the diagnosis criteria for pervasive developmental disorder non-specified; the other did not fill the diagnosis criteria for pervasive developmental criteria nor for autism. Future studies might help to decide if these disorders are the expression of the Joubert Syndrome or if they are reactive disorders to the manifestations of this congenital syndrome.