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Early onset manic depression psychosis in a mother and her daughter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

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Abstract

Bipolar affective disorder has a usual age of onset in early adulthood. Adolescent onset occurs in some, prepubertal onset in a few. Early onset affective psychosis in two generations is rarer still and provides powerful evidence for a major genetic effect, especially where adoption removes confounding environmental stresses. We present just such a case in a mother and her daughter.

Keywords

Bipolar disorderAdolescenceGenetics
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 140 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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