Lithium improved behavioral and epileptic symptoms in an adolescent with ring chromosome 20 and bipolar disorder not otherwise specified

Clin Case Rep. 2018 Oct 12;6(11):2234-2239. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1796. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Abstract

We present a case of ring chromosome 20 syndrome in a twelve-year-old girl, with resistant epileptic disease and severe behavioral impairment that both drastically improved after a lithium challenge. If replicated, this could support the use of lithium as a safe treatment in the management of this severe phenotype.

Keywords: KCNQ2; channelopathy; psychosis; seizures; therapy.

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  • Case Reports