Psychotic disorder and its characteristics in sex chromosome aneuploidies

Psychotic disorder and its characteristics in sex chromosome aneuploidies

Authors

  • Annapia Verri Laboratorio di Psicologia Cognitivo ComportamentaleIRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C Mondino- Pavia
  • Anna Cremante Laboratorio di Psicologia Cognitivo ComportamentaleIRCCS Fondazione Istituto Neurologico C Mondino- Pavia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7175/cmi.v3i3.548

Keywords:

Chromosome anomalies, Psychoses, Turner Syndrome

Abstract

Sex chromosome anomalies have been associated with psychoses. We report a patient with XYY chromosome anomaly who developed a paranoid psychosis. The second case deal with a 51-year-old woman affected by Turner Syndrome and Psychotic Disorder, with a prevalent somatic and sexual focus.

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Published

2009-09-15

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