Adriana Santos Silva

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• Research   
  Psychosis: The Beginning to a Mosaic Trisomy 8 Diagnosis
  Author(s): Luís Santos M Silva*, Ana Batista, Adriana Santos Silva, Filipe Malheiro, Joana Miranda and Margarida Duarte
  
  Mosaic trisomy 8 (also known as Warkany's Syndrome) is a rare chromosomopathy whose clinical presentation has a wide phenotypic variability. Intellectual disability is the most common psychiatric feature and there are few reports of psychotic presentations in these patients. We report the case of a 23-year-old woman, with no family nor personal psychiatric history until the age of 20, when she was first admitted at a psychiatry emergency service, presenting behavioural and sleep disturbances and psychotic symptoms, leading to her first psychiatric inward admission. The psychotic symptoms resolved and she was discharged, nevertheless, she was not able to restart her academic studies. After 1 year she was again admitted in an inward facility with behavioural disturbances, loosening of associations, delusions of guilt and psychomotor retardation. After this episode.. Read More»
  

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