Mental Disorder in Cushing's Syndrome

RESEARCHES into endocrine function and dysfunction have thrown new light on many clinical conditions, and great hopes have been aroused that obscurities of causation may ultimately be traced to an endocrine source. The obvious relationship between certain emotional states, e.g. fear, and the activity of certain endocrine glands, e.g. suprarenals, suggested that such an approach might be specially valuable in psychiatry; nevertheless, the specific association of a given mental disorder with a given endocrine state has not been accepted and has fallen into disrepute. Perhaps because of this certain aspects of endocrine disorder have not been sufficiently stressed.