Posting more links re: thyroid disease and "mental illness"

http://www.drrichardhall.com/Articles/hashimoto.pdf
“Psychiatric Manifestations of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis” by Richard C.W. Hall

http://www.hotthyroidology.com/print.php?ID=64
Thyroid hormone and depression.

http://www.drrichardhall.com/anxiety.htm
http://www.drrichardhall.com/Articles/anxiety.pdf
Article “Anxiety and Endocrine Disease” by Richard D. Hall, M.D. and Ryan C.W. Hall which includes sections “Anxiety Disorders in Patients with Thyroid Hormone Disturbance” and “Panic disorder/agoraphobia and thyroid disease”.

http://www.cchr.org/download-material/fact-sheets.html
Fact sheets and reports on issues ranging from alternatives to mental health treatment and international warnings on psychiatric drugs to psychiatric fraud and abuse.


http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/4/25
The link between thyroid autoimmunity (antithyroid peroxidase autoantibodies) with anxiety and mood disorders in the community: a field of interest for public health in the future.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-133977981.html
A world-renowned expert on bipolar disorder discusses the latest research demonstrating that thyroid hormone can have a positive and profound effect on mood in bipolar patients.

http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223%2802%2901573-1/abstract
Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder is associated with a latent hypofunction of the HPT system.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16314436
A review of the evidence pertaining to the treatment of refractory affective disorders with supraphysiologic doses of T4.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uopm-rzi061405.php
Research zeros in on bipolar link with thyroid condition.

http://www.psycheducation.org/thyroid/introduction.htm
Thyroid and bipolar disorder.

http://www.psycheducation.org/thyroid/combostory.htm
This clinician’s patient was bipolar and had not had any success with any anti-depressants or mood stabilizers but responded favorably to a T3/T4 combination.

http://www.medicineonline.com/news/10/1812/Thyroid-Condition-May-Slow-Depression-Recovery.html
Autoimmune thyroid condition may slow depression recovery.

http://www.xagena.it/news/medicinenews_net_news/705a254246ff6850de83ad6a8e461c0a.html
Role of thyroid hormone in brain and behavior.

http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/26545
Abstract “Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Thyroid Diseased Patients”.


PubMed Info

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3983024?dopt=Abstract
Psychiatric symptoms secondary to endocrine disturbance generally reverse, albeit slowly, with treatment of the primary hormonal abnormality. Treatment with pychotrophic agents for symptomatic relief of psychiatric complaints should be undertaken with great caution in patients with endocrine disorders

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7234630?dopt=Abstract
Hypothyroidism often misdiagnosed as psychiatric illness. Thyroid screening recommended for patients presenting with depression, psychosis or organic mental disorder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/596232?dopt=Abstract
Hypothyroidism can present a wide range of psychiatric manifestations, including personality disturbance, neurotic traits and psychotic features. Failure to recognize the endocrinopathy may not only produce recovery difficulties but also psychiatric and endocrine repercussions if psychotrophic medications are given in such masked cases.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8321343?dopt=Abstract
The case of a young woman who was treated one and one half years with psychopharmacologic agents and psychotherapy until hypothyroidism was diagnosed. Under administration of thyroid hormone the patient was free of psychiatric and somatic symptoms within 3 months.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11603044?dopt=Abstract
All symptoms improved with thyroxine treatment, although patients did not necessarily reach premorbid functioning in 6-12. In the literature, depression in hypothyroidism is hypothesized to be at least partly caused by relative hypothyroidism in the central nervous system, and local brain triiodothyronine deficiency may be a possible explanation for affective and cognitive symptoms in subclinical hypothyroidism.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9559307?dopt=Abstract
Psychiatric manifestations as the only clinical sign of hypothyroidism.
The presence of potentially irreversible cognitive deterioration, as well as the inocuity and sensibility of thyroid hormones examination justify the systematic thyroid evaluation for all new psychiatric patients.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11326441?dopt=Abstract
A case of ‘hallucination of solioquy’ with hypothyroidism induced Hashimoto disease.
“Hallucination of soliloquy”, the autoimatic flow of meaningless words inside the patients’s mind. Symptoms disappeared soon after starting thyroid hormone treatment.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6810401?dopt=Abstract
“Symptomless” autoimmune thyroiditis in depression.
While patients with SAT are clinically euthyroid, what might be “symptomless” for the endocrinologist might be a syndrome presenting with psychiatric symptoms to the psychiatrist.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/816176?dopt=Abstract
Myxedematous madness without myxedema.
A young woman, whose psychiatric history covered 16 years, has been treated several times as in-patient for psychotic depression, which was finally cured with thyroid replacement therapy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11054982?dopt=Abstract
Hypothyroidism and depression: a therapeutic challenge.
Depressed patients should be screened for hypothyroidism. In hypothyroid patients, depression may be more responsive to a replacement regimen that includes T3 rather than T4 alone.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2722405?dopt=Abstract
Psychotic states associated with disorders of thyroid function.
Highlights the need to consider the possibility of thyroid disorder in all patients presenting with acute psychotic mental disorder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3215715?dopt=Abstract
The diagnostic dilemma of myxedema and madness, axis I and II.
A patient with presumed chronic paranoid schizophrenia had chronic thyroiditis and Grade I hypothyroidism. Psychosis cleared following treatment with thyroid replacement.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15113438?dopt=Abstract
Thyroid function in clinical subtypes of major depression: an exploratory study.
There is evidence suggesting the presence of an autoimmune process affecting the thyroid gland in depressive patients.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1213608?dopt=Abstract
Studies on thyroid therapy and thyroid function in depression patients.
A number of cases of depressed patients have latent hypothyroidism, possibly due to hypothalamus-pituitary dysfunction.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9334793?dopt=Abstract
Experiences of fatigue and depression before and after low-dose 1-thyroxine supplementation in essentially euthyroid individuals.
Individuals may experience thyroid-related symptoms such as fatigue and depression before thyroid indices become abnormal.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10526630?dopt=Abstract
Thyroid antibodies in depressive disorders.
Hashimoto’s/hypothyroidism is a risk factor for depression.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2297552?dopt=Abstract
The presence of antithyroid antibodies in patients with affective and nonaffective psychiatric disorders.
Thyroid disorders may be particularly common in patients with bipolar affective disorder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4014506?dopt=Abstract
Antithyroid antibodies in depressed patients.
Findings support the hypothesis of subtle thyroid dysfunction in a sizable sample of psychiatric inpatients with prominent depressive symptoms.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15290119?dopt=Abstract
Brain perfusion abnormalities in patients with euthyroid autoimmune thyroiditis.
Findings suggest a higher than expected involvement of central nervous system in thyroid autoimmune disease.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15290119?dopt=Abstract
Brain metabolism in hypothyroidism studied with 31P magnetic-resonance spectroscopy.
First direct evidence of cerebral metabolic effects of hypothyroidism on an adult brain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15253676?dopt=Abstract
Sub-laboratory hypothyroidism and the empiral use of Armour Thyroid.
In some cases, treatment with desiccated thyroid has produced better clinical results than levothyroxine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9670226?dopt=Abstract
Psychoneuroendocinology of mood disorders. The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.
Abnormal thyroid functioning can affect mood and influence the course of unipolar and bipolar disorder.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15471838?dopt=Abstract
Regional cerebral blood flow in patients with mild hypothyroidism.
Decreased cerebral blood flow in mild hypothyroidism found in regions mediating attention, motor speed, memory, and visuospatial processing.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7410326?dopt=Abstract
Myxedema psychosis – insanity defense in homicide.
Man commits murder in course of hypothyroid psychosis. Later judged to be not guilty by reason of insanity.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21343331Prevalence of autoimmune thyroid dysfunction in postpartum psychosis

Discussion/Article on thyroid disease and "Depression"

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/04/26/is-thyroid-dysfunction-driving-your-depression/

The truth about depression and anti-depressants
http://hypothyroidmom.com/the-truth-about-hypothyroidism-and-depression/

Here's a few more links on the subject of "mental issues" and hypothyroidism:

http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/index.php?id=22661&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=171930

http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/index.php?id=22661&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=171964

http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/?id=22161&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=171930&cHash=190d5808f9bdd646cf3a8560587e35cc

Great article submitted by JessM

http://www.kinesiologydatabase.com/page/view/anxiety-and-endocrine-disease