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Bipolar Affective Disorder Following Head Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. S. Bamrah  and
J. Johnson
J. S. Bamrah*
Affiliation:
Withington Hospital
J. Johnson
Affiliation:
Withington Hospital, Didsbury, Manchester M20 8LR
*
∗Bridgewater Hospital, Green Lane, Eccles, Manchester M30 0RL
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Abstract

A patient developed distinct episodes of major depressive illness, schizophreniform psychoses and mania as well as focal epilepsy following head injury. Head injury may be directly causative in the development of affective psychoses, in this case secondary bipolar (mixed) disorder.

British Journal of Psychiatry (1991), 158, 117–119

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 117 - 119
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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