Open AccessPsychotic disorder and its characteristics in sex chromosome aneuploidies
Author(s) -
Annalisa Verri,
Anna Cremante
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical management issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2283-3137
pISSN - 1973-4832
DOI - 10.7175/cmi.v3i3.548
Subject(s) - medicine , psychosis , chromosome , somatic cell , psychiatry , turner syndrome , pediatrics , genetics , biology , gene
Sex chromosome anomalies have been associated with psychoses. We report a patient with XYY chromosome anomaly who developed a paranoid psychosis. The second case deal with a 51-year-old woman affected by Turner Syndrome and Psychotic Disorder, with a prevalent somatic and sexual focus