Juvenile Thyrotoxicosis: Symptoms and Antecedents Leading to Referral and Diagnosis
Juvenile Thyrotoxicosis: Symptoms and Antecedents Leading to Referral and Diagnosis 1 JOHN MONEY, Ph.D., and PHILIP W. DRASH, Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University Thyrotoxicosis (hyperthyroidism) in childhood (Saxena, Crawford, &Talbot. 1964; Wilkins, 1965) is rare. Yet it is a disorder of extreme interest to experts in special education, first because of the sense of satisfaction any educator feels at correctly interpreting the diagnostic signs when a rare anomaly presents itself and, second, because it teaches an important theoretical lesson about the origin of behavioral symptoms. In particular, it teaches a warning lesson to the teacher or psychologist not to assume that