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Affective Disturbance in Hypothyroidism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

V. K. Jain
V. K. Jain*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Liverpool; Beorn Clinic, Barnsley District General Hospital, Barnsley, Yorkshire
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Since the classic report in 1888 by the Committee on Myxoedema of the Clinical Society of London, there has been a wide interest in the psychiatric aspects of hypothyroidism. Despite many reports which followed, Asher (who in 1949 coined the term ‘myxoedematous madness’) had this to say: ‘Myxoedema is one of the most important, one of the least known and one of the most frequently missed causes of organic psychosis'. Most studies have been clinical descriptions with no correlation of the degree of affective disturbance with the severity of disease process.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 550 , September 1971 , pp. 279 - 280
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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