title: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency with psychosis.
abstract: Several authors have attempted to establish a correlation between glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency and chronic schizophrenia, and the results were contradictory. We propose that the correlation between G-6-PD deficiency and schizophrenia is to be found in the form of an acute delirium.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003693:Delirium / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D005955:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics