Ur E, Turner T H, Goodwin T J, Grossman A, Besser G M
Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
Postgrad Med J. 1992 Jan;68(795):41-3. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.68.795.41.
A 32 year old woman with untreated primary adenocortical insufficiency presented with prominent depressive symptoms. Upon treatment with physiological doses of glucocorticoids she developed a self-limiting acute manic illness. We suggest that up-regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors as a consequence of prolonged hypocortisolaemia resulted in increased cerebral sensitivity to exogenous corticosteroids, which are known to precipitate manic symptoms in some normal individuals when given in supraphysiological doses.
一名32岁未经治疗的原发性肾上腺皮质功能不全女性出现明显的抑郁症状。在接受生理剂量糖皮质激素治疗后,她患上了一种自限性急性躁狂症。我们认为,长期皮质醇血症导致海马糖皮质激素受体上调,从而使大脑对外源性皮质类固醇的敏感性增加,而外源性皮质类固醇在超生理剂量给药时已知会在一些正常个体中引发躁狂症状。