Psychiatric disturbances as a first clinical symptom of Wilson’s disease – case report.

Wilson's disease (WD) is an inherited disorder of copper metabolism with wide spectrum of clinical symptoms, mainly hepatic or neurological. Psychiatric disorders occur less frequently and are not pathognomonic for WD. However, in almost 20% of cases they are in fact the first clinical manifestation of WD. The aim of this paper is to emphasise the importance of including WD in differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in young adults, as well as caution in initiating psychiatric treatment for patients with already established diagnosis of WD.