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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 125, No. 2
Articles   |   August 01, 1968 
Cataracts Following Chronic Headbanging: A Report of Two Cases
J. R. BEMPORAD; J. A. SOURS; H. F. SPALTER
Am J Psychiatry 1968;125:245-249.
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Department of psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 722 West 168th Street, New York, N. Y. 10032
Department of ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
1968-69, American Psychiatric Association
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In order to assess the relationship between severe cataracts and violent headbanging, ophthalmologic examinations were performed on a random group of institutionalized headbangers; it was found that the majority had cataracts of varying maturity. The authors describe two patients, eight and ten years old, with cataracts subsequent to chronic headbanging and review recent theories attempting to explain it.Abstract Teaser
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