Organic brain syndrome associated with marginal hypothyroidism
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (6) , 785-786
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.6.785
Abstract
The authors report organic brain dysfunction in two psychiatric patients with grade 2 hypothyroidism; one was depressed and one had a paranoid psychosis with depressive features. The depression and psychosis responded to psychotropic medication and L-thyroxine, but the cognitive dysfunction improved only partially.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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