PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kevin Lally
AU  - Nuraini Ibrahim
AU  - Mary Kelly
AU  - Gautam Gulati
TI  - Brief psychotic episode in a patient with chromosome 2q37 microdeletion syndrome
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2017-221012
DP  - 2017 Nov 27
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2017-221012
VI  - 2017
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-221012.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2017-221012.full
AB  - A 21-year-old woman with moderate learning disability secondary to chromosome 2 microdeletion at q37 was admitted to a general adult psychiatric ward following a period of agitation with incessant pressure of speech, nihilistic delusions and worsening of sleep and eating patterns. Her presentation was preceded for a number of weeks by social stressors of an ill family member and another family member moving away. She had also been diagnosed and treated for a respiratory infection several weeks prior to presentation. Her presentation improved with low-dose antipsychotic medication and parallel input from the general adult mental health team and the psychiatry of intellectual disability team.