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Down's Syndrome with Mania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Edwin H. Cook Jr.  and
Bennett L. Leventhal
Edwin H. Cook Jr.*
Affiliation:
Child Psychiatry
Bennett L. Leventhal
Affiliation:
Child Psychiatry, Associate Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago
*
∗University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland (Box 411) Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Sovner et al (1985) proposed that the presence of Down's Syndrome (DS) precludes the possibility of concomitant mama, and this is not a new claim, since Earl (1961) had stated that neither cyclothymia nor manic-depressive psychosis occurred in the mentally retarded. While Sovner et al conceded that cases of mania in individuals with DS may simply have gone unrecognised or unpublished, they felt this to be unlikely. However, lest this suggestion enter the canon, we present a previously unreported case of a young adult with both DS and recurrent mania.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 249 - 250
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Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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