Short-Cycle Manic-Depressive Psychosis in a Mentally Handicapped Child without Family History

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Linter
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Short Cycle ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Manic Depressive

Diagnosis of classic psychiatric illness in mentally handicapped individuals remains difficult. Manic-depressive illness has previously been reported in both pre-pubertal and pubertal children with a mental handicap and with a family history. This paper reports a case of manic-depressive psychosis in childhood, with no family history, short-cycle mood swings and good response to lithium therapy.

Historical Insights in Psychopharmacology

2018 ◽  
pp. 508-511
Author(s):  
S. Nassir Ghaemi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
Dementia Praecox ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Basic Distinction ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions

The writings of two classic thinkers in psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries, Emil Kraepelin and Aubrey Lewis, are provided and examined for insights they provided into continuing problems in the diagnostic and treatment of psychiatric conditions today. Kraepelin was the famed great late 19th-century psychiatric leader from Germany who identified the basic distinction between schizophrenia (dementia praecox) and manic-depressive illness. He laid the foundations of much of psychiatric diagnosis that remains relevant today, and he was a committed defender of the biological approach to psychiatry, although he was conservative with the use of drugs, which were ineffective in his day. Lewis (1900–1975) was the most prominent figure in British psychiatry through most of the 20th century. He was the leader of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital for much of the middle of the 20th century. That institution in London was the most influential educational center for psychiatry in the nation. Through his leadership there, Lewis was extremely influential. He tended to be skeptical about the use of psychotropic medications, and emphasized social aspects of psychiatric illness.

Mixed Affective States and the Natural History of Manic-Depressive Psychosis

1979 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. H. Nunn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
History Of

SummarySince neither the unipolar nor the bipolar theories of manic-depressive psychosis explain all its features, an alternative model was tested. The hypotheses are that mixed affective psychoses represent a superimposition on hypomania of a second type of depression which can sometimes develop from the depressive phase of manic-depressive psychosis, and that schizophrenia occurring in the course of a manic-depressive illness is an alternative to mixed affective psychosis.From an examination of the clinical histories of a random sample of people with bipolar manic-depressive psychosis, evidence was found to support both ideas.

Suicide in Association with Psychiatric Hospitalisation

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Goldney ◽  
Sandro Positano ◽  
Neil D. Spence ◽  
Stephen J. Rosenman
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
History Of ◽  
Infrequent Event

A review of 46 subjects who suicided after having contact with a psychiatric hospital is presented. There were 33 men and 11 women, both with a mean age of 37 years. In comparison with a control group, those who suicided had a greater number of hospital admissions, a greater length of hospitalisation, were more often unemployed, had a history of more previous suicide attempts, more often received the diagnosis of schizophrenia or manic depressive illness (depressed phase), were more often overtly depressed at their last contact, and were more often prescribed neuroleptic medications. Although these differences emerged, suicide is an infrequent event, and these factors lack specificity in prediction. The important association of psychiatric illness with subsequent suicide is noted.

Neuropsychological Function in Manic-Depressive Psychosis Evidence for Persistent Deficits in Patients with Chronic, Severe Illness

1995 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. McKay ◽  
A. F. Tarbuck ◽  
J. Shapleske ◽  
P. J. McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Young Patients ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Neuropsychological Deficits ◽  
Severe Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Neuropsychological Investigation

BackgroundWhile neuropsychological deficits are recognised to occur in manic-depressive psychosis during episodes of depression and to reverse with clinical recovery, it is uncertain whether they can ever be seen outside episodes of illness.MethodForty-five patients meeting DSM–III–R criteria for major depression or bipolar disorder were screened using tests of memory, executive function and overall intellectual function. All testing was carried out during remission of affective symptoms.ResultsNone of 24 young patients and 11 elderly patients scored in the impaired range on any of the tests. However, five of ten patients with chronic, severe affective disorder were impaired on one or more of the measures. On more detailed neuropsychological investigation, these five patients were found to show a variable pattern of impairment, ranging from memory and executive deficits in relative isolation, to widespread poor performance.ConclusionsEnduring neuropsychological deficits may be a feature of chronic, severe manic-depressive illness.

Affective Equivalents

1963 ◽  
Vol 109 (461) ◽  
pp. 464-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. da Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Psychosis ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Involutional Melancholia ◽  
Progressive Enlargement

Since its first formulation, the concept of manic-depressive illness has been subject to successive modification and, on the whole, to progressive enlargement. It was Kraepelin, following on the attempts of Baillarger, Falret and Magnan, who grouped together all the various nosographic forms distinguished by isolated depressive or manic crises, periodic or alternating (and even the form designated as involutional melancholia), including them all under the sole class name of manic-depressive psychosis. The morbid entity thus defined was regarded as distinguished by the periodicity of the crises, each with a tendency towards social remission. Aetiologically the causation was seen as preponderantly hereditary.

Through the Looking Glass: A Psychologist's Experience of Depression

CNS Spectrums ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Martha Manning
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Glass

Driving to the symposium, the vague anxiety and discomfort I had heen experiencing for the past few days finally culminated in the realization that 7 years ago that day, I awoke from my first night as an inpatient at a psychiatric unit.Since then and because of that, I've learned a great deal about depressive and manic-depressive illness. I've learned about stigma and shame. I've learned about the devastation that the violence we benignly call “mood disorder” wreaks on families. I have been awed by the array of treatments we've found to ease the suffering, and humbled by the fact that we still have a long way to go. I have become painfully aware of how unenlightened the world still is about psychiatric illness, and saddened by the cruel irony that the only thing more stigmatizing than suffering from a psychiatric illness is seeking treatment for it.

Manic-Depressive Illness: A Comparative Study of Patients with and Without a Family History

1972 ◽  
Vol 120 (558) ◽  
pp. 523-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mendlewicz ◽  
R. R. Fieve ◽  
J. D. Rainer ◽  
J. L. Fleiss
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Manic Depressive Illness ◽  
Family Risk ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Depressive Group

Early studies (21, 22, 25, 12) have pointed to a genetic component in the aetiology of manic-depressive disorders. More recently, careful clinical observation has suggested the division of the affective disorders into two distinct groups: the so-called bipolar or manic-depressive group and the unipolar type with recurrent depressions only (14, 27, 1). Although genetic differences in terms of family risk have been demonstrated between the so-called bipolar and unipolar psychoses, it is not yet evident whether each group constitutes a homogeneous entity. Moreover, the diagnosis of unipolar depressive disease for the authors cited above includes such syndromes as involutional psychotic reactions, psychotic depressive reactions, and probably also psychoneurotic depressions.

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