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Note on the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Insanity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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True diabetic insanity is a rarity, and when it occurs does not always take the same form. But it is by no means uncommon to meet with certain lesser mental abnormalities in diabetes which are very constant in character; and what is usually regarded as the typical variety of diabetic insanity is simply an intensification of these abnormalities probably due to inherited or acquired cortical instability. Hence this psychosis derives its interest from the definiteness of its aetiology and the constancy of its symptoms.
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(1) Read at the General Meeting, July 24th, 1902.Google Scholar
(2) Under the latter head may be included exhaustion by mental work and worry.Google Scholar
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(9) Raimann (Wiener klin. Woch., 1901, p. 513) has found that the power of assimilating sugar is reduced in melancholia, so that alimentary glycosuria is more readily produced. It is thus possible that a sort of vicious circle may be established in diabetic insanity.Google Scholar
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