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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Response to Thyrotropin in Prepubertal Depression
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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Response to Thyrotropin in Prepubertal Depression

MANUEL R. Garcia, NEAL D. Ryan, HARRIS Rabinovitch, PAUL Ambrosini, JAN Twomey, SATTISH Iyengar, HANA Novacenko, BEVERLY Nelson, JOAQUIM PUIG-ANTICH and Brittany Nelson
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v 30(3), pp 398-406
May 1991
PMID: 1905294

Abstract

major depression neuroendocrine markers TRH test
In an effort to evaluate whether differences exist in the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis of depressed children, a thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) stimulation test was administered to 55 prepubertal subjects who were divided into three groups matched for age and sex: a depressed group (endogenous N = 15, nonendogenous N = 15), a psychiatric nondepressed control group (N = 16), and a normal control group (N = 9). Each subject was tested at two dosages of TRH, 2 μg/kg and 7 μg/kg. Increasing age and female sex were positively correlated with a greater thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) response. TSH response to TRH was examined with subjects reclassified by severe suicidal ideation, severe aggression, and parental history of alcoholism. Results of this study are contrasted with the adult psychiatric literature.

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Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Psychology, Developmental
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