Three cases of manic-depressive illness in mentally retarded adults
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 136 (8) , 1069-1071
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.8.1069
Abstract
Manic-depressive illness is often not diagnosed in mentally retarded patients because they are regarded as different. The use of lithium carbonate as a prophylactic agent in the treatment of manic-depressive illness in mentally retarded patients is discussed and 3 case histories illustrating some difficulties encountered in diagnosing mania or hypomania in such patients are presented. Suggestion are provided to help physicians recognize and treat these disorders.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Lithium As a Prophylactic AgentArchives of General Psychiatry, 1967