Dissociative disorder due to Graves' hyperthyroidism: a case report.
We report the case of a 20-year-old Japanese woman with no psychiatric history with apparent dissociative symptoms. These consisted of amnesia for episodes of shoplifting behaviors and a suicide attempt, developing together with an exacerbation of Graves' hyperthyroidism. Patients with Graves' disease frequently manifest various psychiatric disorders; however, very few reports have described dissociative disorder due to this disease. Along with other possible causes, for example, encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease, clinicians should be aware of this possibility.
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Kaoru
K
Mizutani
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: knishimura@psy.twmu.ac.jp.
Katsuji
K
Nishimura
Department of Medicine II, Endocrinology and Hypertension, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Atsuhiro
A
Ichihara
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Jun
J
Ishigooka
D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology*; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
Dissociative amnesia; Dissociative disorder; Graves' disease; Hyperthyroidism