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Psychosomatic Medicine 27:497-507 (1965)
© 1965 American Psychosomatic Society

A Psychophysiological Investigation of Hyperthyroidism

GLENN W. FLAGG M.D.1, THEODORE L. CLEMENS PH.D.1, ETHEL ANN MICHAEL PH.D.1, FRANZ ALEXANDER M.D.1, and JULIA WARK A.B.1

1 Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Mt. Sinai Division, Los Angeles, Calif.

Acute hyperthyroid patients, 7 treated and 43 untreated, and 31 control subjects were psychologically and physiologically tested before, during, and after viewing stressor and nonstressor motion pictures.

In untreated patients, the thyroid gland was capable of responding to emotional stimulation within 2 min. Thyroid and autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactions were significantly greater with the stressor film than with nonstressors. The more emotionally disturbed showed greater thyroid and ANS activation than the less disturbed, regardless of stimulus film shown.

In treated patients and control subjects, thyroid and ANS response to the stressor film was minimal.

Protein-bound iodine-131 was a more sensitive indicator of thyroid response than untagged protein-bound iodine.

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Deceased Apr. 1, 1965.

Deceased Mar. 8, 1964.

Submitted on December 23, 1964






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