Dr. Gilmour. The mental symptoms in coser of exophthalmic goitre and their treahement.—The journal of mental science, 1909

According to the author, there are cases when, among the Basedowics, mental disorder precedes the appearance of the triad itself. These mental abnormalities are expressed as follows: agitation, anxiety, inability to concentrate on one subject for a long time, jumping from case to case, from thought to thought, change of a depressed state by cheerful and vice versa, without sufficient reasons, talkativeness, extreme mobility of thoughts, as if " chorea of ​​ideas "(Russel Reynold), insomnia, heavy dreams, irritability, suspicion, distrust and malice. Most patients themselves are aware of these painful phenomena. Graves indicates the frequent occurrence of hysterical phenomena with lesions of the thyroid gland.