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Familial Basal Ganglia Calcification and Schizophreniform Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. F. Francis
A. F. Francis*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, Withington Hospital, Manchester M20 8LR
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Schizophreniform psychoses have long been associated with a wide variety of clinical conditions affecting the basal ganglia (Davison and Bagley, 1969); amongst such disorders have been post-encephalitic psychosis (Fairweather, 1947), hepato-lenticular degeneration (Beard, 1959) and Huntington's chorea (Heathfield, 1967). Kalamboukis and Molling (1962) reported calcification of the basal ganglia in a single male schizophrenic and paranoid hallucinatory psychoses have been noted in other cases of striopallidodentate calcification (Löwenthal and Bruyn, 1968); however, an association between familial basal ganglia calcification and schizophreniform symptomatology has not been recorded.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 360 - 362
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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