Changing interactions between bipolar affective disorder and anoxic brain damage.
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.
Collins
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St George's Hospital Medical School, London.
Jacobson
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology