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Mania Associated with Weaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. R. Joyce ,
J. R. M. Rogers  and
E. D. Anderson
P. R. Joyce*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Princess Margaret Hospital, Cashmere Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
J. R. M. Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Princess Margaret Hospital, Cashmere Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
E. D. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Princess Margaret Hospital, Cashmere Road, Christchurch, New Zealand
*
∗ Correspondence.
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Summary

This paper describes a patient who has had two episodes of mania, both of which occurred immediately after weaning. Although no recent reference to weaning as an aetiological factor in psychiatric disturbances could be found, it is suggested that weaning was an aetiological factor in this case.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 355 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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