BEHAVIOUR AND MOOD CYCLES APPARENTLY RELATED TO PARATHYROID DEFICIENCY
Open Access
- 1 January 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 3 (1) , 19-26
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.3.1.19
Abstract
An attempt was made to discover if any endocrine and chemical conditions may be related to the cycloid personality and manic-depressive insanity. A woman of 56 with this disorder was found to suffer from a parathyroid deficiency; abnormal mood variation ceased after Ca therapy was administered. Further studies were made with parathyroidectomized monkeys, and the results were quite similar to those with the human subject.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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