Neurocysticercosis has a broad range of clinical manifestations. Among them, the most frequently found are seizures, but uncommon manifestations as the psychiatric ones are also found. OBJECTIVE: report the case of a patient presenting with generalized and partial complex seizures associated with libido comportamental changes. METHODS: on a CT scan, was found an image with cyst-like density on the left temporal lobe, causing a large mass effect, simulating astrocitoma. RESULTS: neurosurgical approach showed the lesion was a parasitic cyst, and after its removal, symptoms were resolved completely. CONCLUSION: in psychiatric diseases with sudden onset, it is important to make differential diagnosis with CNS lesions like neurocysticercosis and neoplasms.
neurocysticercosis; epilepsy; behavior disturbance; neurosurgical; neoplasms
