Thyroid Function Testing in Clinical Psychiatry

Edison Miyawaki and Allan BrettAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 39, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.39.8.830

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Thyroid function tests are useful adjuncts in the evaluation of psychiatric symptoms, but they cannot be properly interpreted without a basic understanding of test methodology and thyroid physiology. In clinical practice, psychiatrists may wish to obtain thyroid function tests to exclude thyroid dysfunction as an etiology for psychiatric symptoms or to follow patients on drugs that affect the thyroid gland. The clinician should remain aware that thyroid function test abnormalities do not always signify thyroid disease. Further endocrine evaluation is recommended whenever persistent thyroid function test abnormalities are observed.

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 39 • Number 8 • August 1988

Pages: 830 - 831

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Published in print: August 1988

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Edison Miyawaki

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Allan Brett

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Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston

Harvard Medical School, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston

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Thyroid Function Testing in Clinical Psychiatry

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