FIRST-EPISODE MANIA IN LATE-LIFE

Authors
TOHEN M SHULMAN KI SATLIN A
Citation
M. Tohen et al., FIRST-EPISODE MANIA IN LATE-LIFE, The American journal of psychiatry, 151(1), 1994, pp. 130-132
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
The American journal of psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
0002953X
Volume
151
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
130 - 132
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-953X(1994)151:1<130:FMIL>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Among 14 elderly patients (mean age=74.6 years) with first-episode man ia who were followed for 3 to 10 years, melt had a higher risk of mort ality. Compared to 36 elderly patients with multiple episodes of mania , patients with first-episode mania were twice as likely to have a com orbid neurological disorder (71% [N=10] versus 28% [N=10]). Mania in t he elderly appears to be a heterogeneous disorder.