[Psychiatric medicine]

Acta Psiquiatr Psicol Am Lat. 1984 Jun;30(2):135-40.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The author, after a short historical introduction which shows the Medicine, especially the Neurology, as the predecessor of the Psychiatry, intents to relate in a theorico-practical way the anxiety and the depression within a bio-chemical and endocrinological frame. He presents the hipo and hipercalcemia signals and symptoms demonstrating with a casuistic from his clinical practice the similitude between anxiety and depression respectively. Finally he realizes a theorical analysis about the investigations published over the AMP-ciclic and infers about the hormonal interference and the clinical data linked with the manic-depressive disease.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anxiety*
  • Bipolar Disorder / physiopathology*
  • Calcium / blood*
  • Cyclic AMP / blood*
  • Depression*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • Cyclic AMP
  • Calcium