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Changing Interactions Between Bipolar Affective Disorder and Anoxic Brain Damage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. N. Collins  and
R. R. Jacobson
M. N. Collins
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
R. R. Jacobson*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A manic-depressive young woman received mild brain damage from anoxia after attempting suicide by hanging. The case conference was held to elucidate whether her subsequent symptoms were functional or organic, and what courses of treatment should be tried in this very refractory case.

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Case Conference
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 5 , May 1990 , pp. 736 - 740
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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