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Mental Illnesses in Hypothyroid Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

C. M. Tonks
C. M. Tonks*
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds 2
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The conjunction of hypothyroidism and mental illness has been of great interest to psychiatrists for almost a century. Sir William Gull (1873) noted mental changes in his original description of hypothyroidism, as did Ord (1878) when he coined the term myxoedema. Savage (1880) reported the first patient with myxoedema to be found in a mental hospital population.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 468 , September 1964 , pp. 706 - 710
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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