Citation

Matos-Pires A, Salazar-Garcia F, Monteiro E, Estevens D. Eur. Psychiatry 2011; 26(Suppl 1): 1673.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0924-9338(11)73377-6

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Domestic violence, particularly violence against women, is a scourge that has killed this year in Portugal more than twenty women.

Our aim is to present a case study on the issue of gender violence on a 49 years old woman with a prior diagnosis of bipolar disorder and its (terrible) consequences.

The multiple injuries sustained over several years "treated" the bipolar disorder. Apart from a frontal lesion on CT there is now a set of neurological and psychiatric symptoms compatible with a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) "boxer's dementia" like.