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Affective Disorders in Mentally Retarded Adolescents —Report of Two Cases with Lithium Treatment—
Author(s) -
Fukuda Kazuhiko,
Etoh Toshikuni,
Okuma Teruo
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1986.tb03169.x
Subject(s) - lithium carbonate , lithium (medication) , polydipsia , mentally retarded , psychology , personality disorders , psychiatry , personality , pediatrics , medicine , developmental psychology , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , ion , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , ionic bonding
Abstract: Two cases of moderately retarded adolescents with affective disorders have been treated for nine and five years, respectively. Rapid cycling episodes were seen in early adolescence and a long duration of episodes appeared in late adolescence. A two‐year lithium therapy was able to control them fairly well but did not work as a prophylaxis. Lithium carbonate induced polydipsia or personality change.