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SUBMITTER: Kurian MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231219 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental medicine and child neurology 20140326 7
Normal thyroid metabolism is essential for human development, including the formation and functioning of the central and peripheral nervous system. Disorders of thyroid metabolism are increasingly recognized within the spectrum of paediatric neurological disorders. Both hypothyroid and hyperthyroid disease states (resulting from genetic and acquired aetiologies) can lead to characteristic neurological syndromes, with cognitive delay, extrapyramidal movement disorders, neuropsychiatric symptoms, ...[more]