MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA

A male patient presented with tricyclic induced hypomania after treatment for chronic depression. On follow up the patient deteriorated towards dementia with multifocal leucoencephalopathy. The possible role of brain lesions in the causation of affective syndromes and the neurobiological hypothesis...

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Autores principales: Damodaran, Saji S., Sinha, Vinod Kumar, Das, Arunava, Akhtar, Sayeed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1994
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743663
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author Damodaran, Saji S.
Sinha, Vinod Kumar
Das, Arunava
Akhtar, Sayeed
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description A male patient presented with tricyclic induced hypomania after treatment for chronic depression. On follow up the patient deteriorated towards dementia with multifocal leucoencephalopathy. The possible role of brain lesions in the causation of affective syndromes and the neurobiological hypothesis of bipolar syndromes are discussed. The authors propose that chronic depression should be thoroughly investigated for a probable Axis III diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-29724512011-07-08 MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA Damodaran, Saji S. Sinha, Vinod Kumar Das, Arunava Akhtar, Sayeed Indian J Psychiatry Case Report A male patient presented with tricyclic induced hypomania after treatment for chronic depression. On follow up the patient deteriorated towards dementia with multifocal leucoencephalopathy. The possible role of brain lesions in the causation of affective syndromes and the neurobiological hypothesis of bipolar syndromes are discussed. The authors propose that chronic depression should be thoroughly investigated for a probable Axis III diagnosis. Medknow Publications 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC2972451/ /pubmed/21743663 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Damodaran, Saji S.
Sinha, Vinod Kumar
Das, Arunava
Akhtar, Sayeed
MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title_full MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title_fullStr MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title_full_unstemmed MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title_short MULTIFOCAL LEUCOENCEPHALOPATHY PRESENTING AS ANTIDEPRESSANT INDUCED MANIA
title_sort multifocal leucoencephalopathy presenting as antidepressant induced mania
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743663
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