Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-18T16:12:20.293Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Therapeutic Effect of Lithium Carbonate on a Patient with a Forty-Eight Hour Periodic Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

S. M. Hanna ,
F. A. Jenner ,
I. B. Pearson ,
Gwyneth A. Sampson  and
Elizabeth A. Thompson
S. M. Hanna
Affiliation:
United Sheffield Hospitals. Cherry Hospital, Goldsboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
F. A. Jenner
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield, and Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry
I. B. Pearson
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry
Gwyneth A. Sampson
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry
Elizabeth A. Thompson
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In a series of previous papers fairly detailed studies of an individual patient with a precisely timed forty-eight hour periodic psychosis have been presented. Jenner (1963), and Jenner, Gjessing, Cox, Davis-Jones, Hullin and Hanna (1967) have presented the clinical findings. Essentially, for thirteen years the patient regularly suffered from one day of depression alternating with one day of hypomania. The change of state occurred during sleep, usually between 02.00 and 03.00 hours. There were only eight major defects of the cycle in ten years. The timing of the cycle was however influenced by the environment; this was confirmed when the patient lived in an artificial environment in which a day and night totalled twenty-two hours instead of twenty-four. The psychotic cycle then became one of forty-four hours rather than forty-eight (Jenner, Goodwin, Sheridan, Tauber and Lobban (1968)).

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 562 , September 1972 , pp. 271 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baastrup, P. C., Poulsen, J. C., Schou, M., Thomsen, K., and Amdisen, A. (1970). “Prophylactic lithium: double blind discontinuation in manic-depressive and recurrent-depressive disorders.” Lancet, ii, 326–330.Google Scholar
Coppen, A., Noguera, R., Bailey, J., Burns, B. H., Swani, M. S., Hare, E. H., Gardner, R., and Maggs, R. (1971). “Prophylactic lithium in affective disorders.” Lancet, ii, 275–279.Google Scholar
Cooper, T. B., and Simpson, G. M. (1969). “Preliminary report of a longitudinal study on the effects of lithium in iodine metabolism.” Current Therapeutic Research, ii, 603–608.Google Scholar
Fieve, R. P., and Platman, S. (1968). “Lithium and thyroid function in manic-depressive psychosis.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 125, 527–530.Google Scholar
Fieve, R. P., and Platman, S. (1969). “Follow up studies of lithium and thyroid function in manic-depressive illness.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 125, 1443–1445.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goodwin, J. F., Macgregor, A. G., Miller, H., and Wayne, E. J. (1951). “The use of radioactive iodine in the assessment of thyroid function.” Quarterly Journal of Medicine, xx, 353–387.Google Scholar
Harding, G., Jeavons, P. M., Jenner, F. A., Drummond, P., Sheridan, M., and Howells, G. W. (1966). “The electroencephalogram in three cases of periodic psychosis.” Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 21, 59–66.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jenner, F. A. (1963). “Biochemical aspects of disorders of mood,” in Neurometabolic Disorders in Childhood (ed. Holt, K.). Edinburgh: Livingstone.Google Scholar
Jenner, F. A. (1964). “A psychotic analogue” In: Biomechanics and Related Bio-engineering Topics (ed. Kenedi, R. M.). Oxford: Pergamon Press.Google Scholar
Jenner, F. A. (1968). “Periodic psychoses in the light of biological rhythm research.” International Review of Neurobiol., ii, 129–169.Google Scholar
Jenner, F. A. Gjessing, L. R., Cox, J. R., Davies-Jones, A., Hulltn, R. P., and Hanna, S. M. (1967). “A manic depressive psychotic with a persistent forty-eight hour cycle.” British Journal of Psychiatry, 113, 895–910.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hulltn, R. P. Goodwin, J. C., Sheridan, M., Tauber, Isle J., and Lobban, Mary C. (1968). “The effect of an altered time regime on biological rhythms in a 48-hour periodic psychosis.” British Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 215–224.Google Scholar
Lashley, K. S. (1916). “Reflex secretion of the human parotid gland.” Journal of Experimental Psychology, i, 461–493.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCance, R. A., and Widdowson, E. M. (1960). The Composition of Foods, London: H.M.S.O. Google Scholar
Schou, M., Amdisen, A., Jensen, S. E., and Olsen, T. (1968). “Occurrence of goitre during lithium treatment.” British Medical Journal, 3, 710–713.Google Scholar
Sedvall, G., Jonsson, B., Pettersson, U., and Levin, K. (1968). “Effects of lithium salts on plasma protein bound iodine and uptake of I131 in thyroidgl and of manand rat.” Life Sciences, 7, 1257–1264.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shopsin, B. (1970). “Effects of lithium in thyroid function–-a review.” Diseases of the Nervous System, 31, 237–244.Google Scholar
Shopsin, B. Blum, M., and Gershon, S. (1969). “Lithium induced thyroid disturbances: case report and review.” Comprehensive Psychiatry, 10, 215–223.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.