The British Journal of Psychiatry: Volume 161 -

A Transsexual Male with 47, XYY Karyotype
Neelam Taneja, A. C. Ammini, Itu Mohapatra, Shekhar Saxena, Kiran Kucheria
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02 January 2018, pp. 698-699
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Transsexuals are usually found to have a normal chromosome complement. The literature to data documents four transsexuals with 47,XYY pattern. This paper reports a ferule male with major cell line of 47, XYY and a gender identity disorder.

Hyperkinetic Syndrome and Disruptive Early Experiences
P. M. Haddad, M. E. Garralda
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02 January 2018, pp. 700-703
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Five children aged 8–10 years presenting to child psychiatric clinics with hyperkinetic syndrome and severe disruptive early experiences are described. At referral all had been living in stable families for a minimum of four years. Biological risk factors were absent. It is proposed that the disruption of early attachments resulted in ill-regulated search and exploratory behaviour and that this had a continuing effect on the children's ability to focus and control attention skills and motor behaviour.

Verbally Mediated Childhood Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Philip A. Saigh
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02 January 2018, pp. 704-706
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This report chronicles the verbally mediated traumatisation and subsequent PTSD in an 11-year-old girl. Information obtained from parental interviews, academic transcripts, anecdotal teacher comments, structured and unstructured interviews, and standardised anxiety, depression, and misconduct scales was used to highlight the unique distress of the patient.

The Clinical Efficacy of Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patient with a Mild Mental Handicap
B. K. Puri, A. Langa, R. M. Coleman, I. Singh
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02 January 2018, pp. 707-709
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A 32-year-old chronically relapsing depressed male patient with a mild mental handicap had tried different forms of pharmacotherapy which were either not tolerated or failed to prevent recurrences of episodes of psychotic depression. The use of maintenance ECT as the mainstay of the therapeutic regime led to a marked consistent clinical improvement.

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