NORMAL cellular metabolism is one of the factors in normal brain function. Although the brain has its own special metabolism, it communicates through its blood-brain barrier with the body as a whole. It is not at all isolated from the rest of the organism. It seems, therefore, reasonable to accept that disturbances in the homeostasis of the body may produce abnormalities in the brain cell which will be manifested as neurological and psychiatric symptoms. This does not mean that all cerebral functional disturbances will be of metabolic origin.
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J. De Groote (1963) studied this question.
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