Bipolar Syndromes Following Brain Trauma
| Autor: | M. T. Wright, J. L. Cummings, M. F. Mendez, D. J. Foti |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics education.field_of_study Traumatic brain injury Population medicine.disease Atrophy Mood Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Mood disorders mental disorders medicine Neurology (clinical) Differential diagnosis medicine.symptom Psychiatry education Psychology Mania Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | Neurocase. 3:111-118 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3656 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/neucas/3.2.111 |
| Popis: | A number of illnesses can produce mood abnormalities. Case reports suggest that syndromes resembling Idiopathic bipolar disorders can follow traumatic brain injuries (TBI). We describe a TBI patient who developed episodes of depression and mania after his injuries and review the recent literature on post-traumatic bipolar syndromes. While unipolar depression is common after TBI, bipolar syndromes occur in only a small segment of the TBI population. A bipolar syndrome can appear immediately after a TBI or after a delay of months or years. Patients with post-traumatic mania are often irritable and aggressive. Factors that may predispose a TBI patient to bipolar illness include an inherited vulnerability to mood disorders, pre-existent frontal subcortical and diencephalic atrophy, and post-traumatic seizures. Studies of patients who developed a bipolar syndrome after a brain Insult show a preponderance of right hemisphere lesions, particularly right orbitofrontal and basotemporal cortical, caudate a... |
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