Organic brain syndrome associated with marginal hypothyroidism

Am J Psychiatry. 1986 Jun;143(6):785-6. doi: 10.1176/ajp.143.6.785.

Abstract

The authors report organic brain dysfunction in two psychiatric patients with grade 2 hypothyroidism; one was depressed and one had a paranoid psychosis with depressive features. The depression and psychosis responded to psychotropic medication and L-thyroxine, but the cognitive dysfunction improved only partially.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Depressive Disorder / drug therapy
  • Depressive Disorder / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypothyroidism / complications*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurocognitive Disorders / drug therapy
  • Neurocognitive Disorders / etiology*
  • Paranoid Disorders / drug therapy
  • Paranoid Disorders / etiology
  • Psychotropic Drugs / therapeutic use
  • Thyroxine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Psychotropic Drugs
  • Thyroxine