Citation

Rubenstein JL, Steiner H, Walton C. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1990; 29(3): 472-474.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2347849

Abstract

A patient referred to the authors for evaluation and treatment of depression, behavioral dyscontrol syndrome, and polydipsia is described. The authors reviewed his medical status and, finding damage to his right temporal lobe, conceptualized his symptom constellation as representing interictal syndrome and treated him with carbamazepine. His affective symptoms, but not the polydipsia, improved following treatment with carbamazepine.

Language: en