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Mania and pseudodementia
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville, Ky.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 73-year-old woman who was initially believed to be demented was later given the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, manic phase. Treatment with lithium carbonate resolved the mania and the apparent cognitive deficits.