
Dr. Gilmour. The mental symptoms in coser of exophthalmic goitre and their treahement.—The journal of mental science, 1909
Author(s) -
Pavel I. Kovalevsky
Publication year - 1910
Publication title -
nevrologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-3067
pISSN - 1027-4898
DOI - 10.17816/nb100562
Subject(s) - psychology , psychoanalysis , irritability , anxiety , mental state , psychiatry
According to the author, there are cases when, among the Basedowics, mental disorder precedes the appearance of the triad itself. These mental abnormalities are expressed as follows: agitation, anxiety, inability to concentrate on one subject for a long time, jumping from case to case, from thought to thought, change of a depressed state by cheerful and vice versa, without sufficient reasons, talkativeness, extreme mobility of thoughts, as if " chorea of ideas "(Russel Reynold), insomnia, heavy dreams, irritability, suspicion, distrust and malice. Most patients themselves are aware of these painful phenomena. Graves indicates the frequent occurrence of hysterical phenomena with lesions of the thyroid gland.