title: Ibn Imran's 10th century Treatise on Melancholy.
abstract: Some see current views of mental illness, such as depression, as merely contemporary social constructions, with madness seen as a modernist break from medieval and ancient concepts. In contrast to these assumptions, here we describe one of the earliest texts on melancholia and mania, by Ibn Imran, an Arab physician of the 10th century.
authors.affiliation: Tunisian Bipolar Forum, 21 rue du Koweit Tunis, Tunisia. omrani.adel@gnet.tn
authors.forename: Adel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Omrani
authors.forename: Niki S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Holtzman
authors.forename: Hagop S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Akiskal
authors.forename: S Nassir
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Ghaemi
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000266:history*; D049691:History, Medieval; D007493:Iraq; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014416:Tunisia