RESPONSE OF PINEAL GLAND IN CLINICAL CASES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS

SUMMARY The present study includes 50 patients suffering from psychological stress disorders like thyrotoxicosis and anxiety neurosis. Biochemical estimation of melatonin was done in all these cases prior to treatment and 3 months after appropriate treatment. A significant increase in the level of melatonin was observed in thyrotoxic and anxiety neurotic cases. In all these cases, after therapy the level of melatonin was found to be within the normal limits. These observations confirm the finding that there is a pineal response to psychic stress.

• Publication year

  1980

• Venue

  Indian Journal of Psychiatry

• Publication date

  1980-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  PMID 22058503PMCID 3013596
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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