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Note on the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. R. Dawson
W. R. Dawson*
Affiliation:
Farnham House, Finglas; University of Dublin
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True diabetic insanity is a rarity, and when it occurs does not always take the same form. But it is by no means uncommon to meet with certain lesser mental abnormalities in diabetes which are very constant in character; and what is usually regarded as the typical variety of diabetic insanity is simply an intensification of these abnormalities probably due to inherited or acquired cortical instability. Hence this psychosis derives its interest from the definiteness of its aetiology and the constancy of its symptoms.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 48 , Issue 203 , October 1902 , pp. 735 - 738
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1902 

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Notes

(1) Read at the General Meeting, July 24th, 1902.Google Scholar

(2) Under the latter head may be included exhaustion by mental work and worry.Google Scholar

(3) “Glycosuria and Insanity,” Case I. Med. Press and Circular, Jan. ist, 1902.Google Scholar

(4) L. Borri, Rivista di Medicina legale, ecc., Oct. I5th, 1897. (Recension by Ghiozzi in Rii:, di Patolog. nerv. e ment., Dec., 1897, p. 552).Google Scholar

(5) Lectures on Mental Diseases, p. 657, 5th ed.Google Scholar

(6) “Der Diabetes mellitus,” Nothnagel's Spec. Pathol. u. Therap., Bd. vu, Th. vi, p. 150.Google Scholar

(7) Naunyn, op. cit., p. 243.Google Scholar

(8) L. Hill and D. N. Nabarro, Journ. of Pkysiol., vol. xviii, p. 22O.Google Scholar

(9) Raimann (Wiener klin. Woch., 1901, p. 513) has found that the power of assimilating sugar is reduced in melancholia, so that alimentary glycosuria is more readily produced. It is thus possible that a sort of vicious circle may be established in diabetic insanity.Google Scholar

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