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From: Rod on 6 Aug 2008 03:13
When I first visited a.s.t, I was shocked and amazed by the number of
references to anti-depressants, anxiolytics and other related medicines.
Over time I can appreciate quite how strong is the connection between
thyroid and mood/mind.

I note that even in this abstract the authors have felt the need to say
"laboratory measurements of peripheral thyroid function may not
adequately characterise central thyroid metabolism" - I guess this is a
sort of admission that the sufferer might just have a point when they
say that their TSH measurement doesn't reflect how they feel.

Has anyone here actually had any functional neuroimaging?


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1: J Neuroendocrinol. 2008 Jul 30. [Epub ahead of print]

The thyroid-brain interaction in thyroid disorders and mood disorders.


Bauer M, Goetz T, Glenn T, Whybrow PC.
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl
Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Thyroid hormones play a critical role in the metabolic activity of the
adult brain, and neuropsychiatric manifestations of thyroid disease have
long been recognised. However, it is only recently that methodology such
as functional neuroimaging has been available to facilitate
investigation of thyroid hormone metabolism. While the role of thyroid
hormones in the adult brain is not yet specified, it is clear that
without optimal thyroid function, mood disturbance, cognitive impairment
and other psychiatric symptoms can emerge. Additionally, laboratory
measurements of peripheral thyroid function may not adequately
characterise central thyroid metabolism. In this article, we review the
relation between thyroid hormone and neuropsychiatric symptoms in
patients with primary thyroid disease and primary mood disorders.

PMID: 18673409 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18673409?dopt=AbstractPlus>

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Rod

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onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
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