This book assembles the latest information about the relationship between thyroid state and behavior. It is intended to serve as a reference for both the basic scientist and the clinician in the field of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences.
The Thyroid Axis and Psychiatric Illness also presents the controversies, ambiguities, and unanswered questions that will be left to the future to resolve. This book not only provides information about the role of the thyroid axis in psychiatric illness, it is also designed to promote further research and understanding of this complex subject.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Maße
Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 31 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-88048-364-3 (9780880483643)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Basic Principles. Cerebral versus peripheral regulation and utilization of thyroid hormones. Nutrition, energy metabolism, and thyroid hormones. Interactions between thyroid hormones and other endocrine systems. The hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis: clinical and theoretical. Clinical Principles. Psychiatric aspects of thyroid disease. The thyroid and depression. The thyroid and anxiety disorders. Interrelationship between the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis and alcoholism. The thyroid and eating disorders. The thyroid and schizophrenia. Index.
