First Episode Mania at 75 Years of Age

Late onset psychiatric disorders are often associated with organic factors, either medical or neurological. Mania occurring for the first time in the elderly population is rarely reported. We hereby report a patient with first episode mania who was investigated in detail, but no organic factors were...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Ashish, Kumar, Ramesh, Sharma, Ravi C., Sharma, Dinesh Dutt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3122555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21716784
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.78514
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author Aggarwal, Ashish
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description Late onset psychiatric disorders are often associated with organic factors, either medical or neurological. Mania occurring for the first time in the elderly population is rarely reported. We hereby report a patient with first episode mania who was investigated in detail, but no organic factors were found. He was diagnosed as first episode mania and was managed with divalproex and olanzapine.
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spelling pubmed-31225552011-06-28 First Episode Mania at 75 Years of Age Aggarwal, Ashish Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Ravi C. Sharma, Dinesh Dutt Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Late onset psychiatric disorders are often associated with organic factors, either medical or neurological. Mania occurring for the first time in the elderly population is rarely reported. We hereby report a patient with first episode mania who was investigated in detail, but no organic factors were found. He was diagnosed as first episode mania and was managed with divalproex and olanzapine. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3122555/ /pubmed/21716784 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.78514 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3122555/
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