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Psychosomatic Medicine 23:104-114 (1961)
© 1961 American Psychosomatic Society

Experimental Studies of Emotional Stress:

I. Hyperthyroidism

FRANZ ALEXANDER M.D.1, GLENN W. FLAGG M.D.1, SUSAN FOSTER Ph.D.1, THEODORE CLEMENS Ph.D.1, and WILLIAM BLAHD M.D.1

1 Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles

On the basis of this study, we believe that we have succeeded in developing a methodology and instruments sensitive enough to establish reliable correlations between a standardized psychological stimulus (movie), the experimental subjects' psychological defenses, and responses in the autonomic nervous system and in thyroid function of treated and untreated thyrotoxic patients and controls.

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Advanced Research Fellow, Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry.

Submitted on May 2, 1960






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