Psychotic mania in glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase-deficient subjects

Table 2 Characteristics of index episodes requiring hospitalization in 21 patients with available records

Age/Gender	Hospital diagnosis	Delusions	Hallucinations	Loosening of Associations	Additional Symptoms
66/F	Manic-depressive illness	Unspecified		+	Mutism, Confusion
23/F	Mixed psychosis	Persecutory	+		Agitation, Confusion
17/F	Dissociative syndrome	Thought broadcasting		+	Agitation, Posturing, Rigidity
29/F	Brief reactive psychosis	Thought broadcasting, Guilt
27/M	Dissociative syndrome	Grandiose, Scientific		+	Agitation
29/M	Dissociated mania	Religious, Magic		+	Agitation
32/M	Psychomotor agitation	Grandiose, Persecutory, Religious	+	+	Agitation
35/M	Manic-depressive psychosis	Persecutory, Grandiose, Religious	+
22/M	Schizoid disorder	Grandiose, Persecutory			Stupor, Negativism, Confusion
34/M	Confusional episode	Being influenced, Grandiose	+		Confusion
20/M	Acute delusional psychosis	Grandiose, Persecutory		+	Agitation, Confusion
27/M	Dissociative syndrome	Religious, Grandiose	+	+	Agitation
48/M	Confusional episode	Being influenced		+	Mutism, Confusion
40/M	Manic-depressive psychosis	Being influenced			Blocking of speech
22/M	Paranoid syndrome	Grandiose, Scientific			Confusion, Posturing
44/M	Dissociative syndrome	Grandiose, Persecutory		+	Stupor, Negativism
27/M	Borderline syndrome	Religious, Scientific	+	+	Agitation
37/M	Manic bipolar disorder	Religious, Grandiose, Persecutory			Mutism
39/M	Manic bipolar disorder	Grandiose, Persecutory	+		Agitation, Mutism, Posturing
47/M	Mixed psychosis	Persecutory, Jealousy	+		Stereotypies, Posturing, Negativism
21/M	Psychotic mania	Religious, Persecutory	+	+

Note: Hospital diagnoses were based on various criteria used in Italy over the last three decades. In particular, the term dissociative syndrome refers to loosening of association, and is not related to DSM-IV dissociative disorders.

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