Citation

Bradwell RH. Behav. Neurol. 1994; 7(3): 117-122.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, IOS Press)

DOI

10.3233/BEN-1994-73-402

PMID

24487324

Abstract

This is the case of a young farm worker presenting with episodes of acute organic psychosis superimposed on a state of chronic anergy and hypersomnia. It is suggested that he developed an encephalopathic illness presenting with an organic bipolar affective disorder as a result of organophosphate exposure. In proposing this aetiology, an hypothesis is developed which links clinical observations and investigative results with research findings in relation to organophosphorus compounds and neuropharmacology.

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