Psychomotor Agitation and Mood Disorders in Patients with Intellectual Disabilities: Efficacy of Treatment with Mood Regulators.

The frameworks of impulsivity and temperamental irritability of people with intellectual disabilities, presenting disabilities both for organic cause, e.g. postpartum, and for congenital mental retardation, may often present impulse control disorders, irritability and psychomotor restlessness, busyness and insomnia, from likely non-epileptic neuronal dysfunction. The patients with intellectual disabilities presenting mood disorders need to be treated with a therapy similar to that of other patients with mood disorders in the bipolar spectrum (namely predominantly with mood regulators), even if they are not mood pathologies classifiable as the others of the bipolar spectrum disorders: we can call them "abnormal mood disorders".