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Donkin psychosis

Author: Ian Brockington

Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health | Issue 1/2017

Abstract

Donkin psychoses are eclamptic psychoses without seizures. As symptomatic psychoses resulting from cerebral endothelial damage, they may explain the lucid intervals that sometimes occur between eclampsia and the eruption of psychosis. They have the same features as eclamptic psychoses, with onset during pregnancy or the early puerperium, especially in first-time mothers, a short duration and full recovery in most. The clinical picture is usually delirium, but mania is also seen, and some patients have retrograde amnesia or other cognitive defects. Donkin psychosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of childbearing psychoses, and collaborative research is needed to clarify their differences.

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Title: Donkin psychosis
Author: Ian Brockington
Publication date: 01-02-2017
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Archives of Women's Mental Health / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1434-1816
Electronic ISSN: 1435-1102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-016-0677-6

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