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Rapid cycling mania post head injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Golm Cooney
Affiliation:
Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, England
Brian A Lawlor
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland

Abstract

A case of post traumatic rapid cycling unipolar mania is described in an individual with no apparent genetic predisposition to an affective disorder. A head injury is proposed as being causative. It is suggested that head injury should be included as a cause of rapid cycling affective disorder.

Type
Case Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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