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The Effects of Hypophysectomy on Intellectual Functioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Martha Schon
Martha Schon*
Affiliation:
From the Section of Research Psychiatry Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Neuropsychiatric Service Memorial Hospital, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, N. Y.
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Extract

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of hypophysectomy, the surgical removal of the pituitary gland, on the intellectual functioning of the individuals undergoing this particular form of surgery.

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Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 436 , July 1958 , pp. 743 - 748
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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