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Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis in Thyroid Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Steven Greer  and
Victor Parsons
Steven Greer
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, London, S.E.5
Victor Parsons
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, London, S.E.5
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Very few cases of thyrotoxic psychoses have been reported during the last twenty years. Recent authoritative reviews on the management of thyrotoxicosis and its complications (Ingbar, 1966; Trotter, 1967) scarcely mention psychotic reactions. It seems that such conditions have become increasingly rare since the advent of modern anti-thyroid treatment. The present report attempts to summarize what is known about these disorders, and describes the clinical features, treatment and subsequent course of a schizophrenia-like psychosis which developed during thyroid crisis.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 516 , November 1968 , pp. 1357 - 1362
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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