title: [Psychiatric and neurologic disturbances in thyroid disorders (author's transl)].
abstract: The effects of the thyroid gland upon the nervous system with neurologic-psychiatric symptoms are discussed. With hyperthyreosis in younger patients hyperactive and psychotic signs occur, in older patients so-called apathic thyreotoxicosis. Neurologically there appear acute and chronic thyreotoxic myopathies, paroxysmal paralyses, the so-called hyperthyreotic chorea and a series of disturbances of eye muscles. In a thyreotoxic crisis psychotic preliminaries may proceed to a coma. With hyperthyreoses there occur intellectual impairment, showing but also psychoses as well as multiple neurological defect syndromes and epileptic seizures. Neurological defects as a consequence of thyreostatic therapy are rare, mostly these are disturbances of periphal nerves.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology; D005132:Eye Manifestations; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000150:complications; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000150:complications; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D009461:Neurologic Manifestations; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Psychiatrische und neurologische Störungen bei Schilddrüsenerkrankungen.