Significance of the Thyroid in Psychiatric Illness and Treatment

Abstract

MEDICAL JOURNAL technical help, and supplies of ethizone and calcium B.P.A.S.; and we are especially indebted to Miss A. Osborne, who has undertaken all the urine analyses, for allowing us the use of her notes. A fuller report will be published by her at a later date.

Emotional Factors in Gravesʼ Disease

“…Recent findings of increased uptake of radioactive iodine in 60 per cent of females suffering from anxiety states 36 increase the evidence that disturbance of thyroid function is concomitant with emotional states.…”

Mental Changes Accompanying Thyroid Gland Dysfunction

“…[3][4][5][6] With such extensive previous study one might question the purpose of a further evaluation of the mental changes occurring in thyroid gland dysfunction. Some workers have attempted to define a specific mental disturbance secondary to thyroid gland dysfunction and conversely, perhaps stimulated by the protean actions of thyroid hormone, others have sought a disturbance of thyroid function in individuals with various psychiatric syndromes, speculating that the gland might play a contributing part in the pathogenesisof the disorders.…”

“…In the lat¬ ter area, for example, an advance has been made towards an understanding of the bio¬ logic changes occurring in the affective dis¬ orders. 4. 2.…”

A Review of the Effect of Stress on the Activity of the Central Nervous-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis in Animals and Man (Part 2 of 2)

“…According to Reiss, Hemphill, Maggs, Haigh and Reiss (1953), thyroid function returns to normal as psychological improve ment occurs. Stoll and Brack (1957), who used similar tracer methods to those of Reiss et al (1951), verified their findings as to thyroid function in chronic schizophrenics.…”