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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1973) 122: 427-429. doi: 10.1192/bjp.122.4.427
© 1973 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Serum Magnesium, Diagnosis, ECT and Season

M. W. P. CARNEY M.D., F.R.C.P.I., M.R.C.Psych.1, B. F. SHEFFIELD B.Sc., Dip. App. Psych., A.B.Ps.S.2, and J. SEBASTIAN B.A., M.B., B.S., L.M., D.P.M.3

1 Consultant Psychiatrist to the Blackpool and Fylde Hospital Group and Lancaster Moor Hospital.
2 Principal Psychologist to the Blackpool and Fylde Hospital Group
3 Assistant Psychiatrist to the Blackpool and Fylde Hospital Group

Serum magnesium estimations were carried out on 213 psychiatric patients and the mean values for the various diagnostic groups compared with that for 19 healthy volunteer controls. The pre-ECT levels in endogenous and neurotic depressives were low, and after ECT normal or raised. Those of the manic (before and after ECT) and untreated schizophrenic patients were also elevated. These phenomena could possibly have been due to a local seasonal variation in serum magnesium for 1970-71, low levels occurring in the spring and higher contrations in the summer and autumn, combined with an uneven distribution of cases throughout the year.

Submitted on April 25, 1972






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