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A Manic Depressive Psychotic with a Persistent Forty-eight Hour Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

F. A. Jenner*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Chemical Pathology of Mental Disorders, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31
L. R. Gjessing
Affiliation:
Dikemark Hospital, Asker, Norway
J. R. Cox
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The University, Sheffield 10;, Psycho-Geriatric Unit, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield
A. Davies-Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Fulwood Annexe, Sheffield 10
R. P. Hullin
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, The University, Leeds
S. M. Hanna
Affiliation:
Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31
*
Address after October, 1967: Department of Psychiatry, The University, Whiteley Wood Clinic, Sheffield 10

Extract

Richter (1960) reviewing knowledge about biological “clocks” in medicine and psychiatry, emphasized the incidence of 48-hour cycles of physical and mental symptoms. He considers that the mental symptoms are not specific and can be manic depressive or schizophrenic. Menninger-Lerchenthal (1960), in his book on periodicity in psychopathology, devoted a section to 48-hour rhythms and lists references to 48-hour cycles in the literature.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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