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The Effect of Sex Hormones in Oligophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. de M. Rudolf
G. de M. Rudolf*
Affiliation:
Yatton Hall and Cambridge House Hospitals, Somerset
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The intelligence, as measured by standard tests, ceases growing after about 14 or 16 years of age, and slowly decreases from about 25 or 30 years of age (Wechsler, 1945). The sex glands are developing as the intelligence ceases to develop.

In view of these observations, consideration was given to the possibility that the defective developed mentally to a degree below the normal because too great a quantity of the appropriate sex hormones was circulating in the blood stream. In consequence, the opposite hormone was administered, stilboestral being given to males and pernandren to females.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 98 , Issue 411 , April 1952 , pp. 294 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

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References

Rudolf, G. de M., J. Ment. Sci., 1949, 95, 696.Google Scholar
Wechsler, D., Measurement of Adult Intelligence, 1945, 3rd ed., p. 29.Google Scholar
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