Volume 8, Issue 2 (May 2023)
JNFS 2023, 8(2): 158-162 |
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Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd , Iran
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Vitamin B12 affects and modify the function of multiple organ systems. Its deficiency may cause psychiatric symptoms in addition to hematologic, gastrointestinal, and neurologic manifestations. The present case study aims to report a patient with vitamin B12 deficiency who coexisted with resistant and persistent depression, and experienced mania phase after the replacement of vitamin B12. For a patient with refractory and resistant depression and evidence or a risk factor for vitamin B12 deficiency, it is required to check plasma levels and monitor psychiatric symptoms during vitamin B12 supplementation. There are some manifestations of B12 deficiency including bipolar disorder, mood lability, irritability, and psychosis due to deficiency but we didn’t find case report about induce of psychiatric presentation follow correction of vitamin B12 deficiency
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Received: 2021/07/10 | Published: 2023/05/20 | ePublished: 2023/05/20
Received: 2021/07/10 | Published: 2023/05/20 | ePublished: 2023/05/20
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