Failure to detect organic factors in mania.
Forty patients from an outpatient lithium clinic were studied who had a clear history of organic abnormalities which predated their affective symptomatology. In the course of reviewing the clinical histories regarding these patients, it was observed that only 37.5% of the patients had ever received a clinical diagnosis of organic affective syndrome. Variables associated with a failure to consider a diagnosis of organic affective syndrome were investigated.
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Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794.
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Hoff
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Aronson
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*