Author/Authors :
Olivares, Jose M. Department of Psychiatry - Vigo Health Area - Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro, Spain , Martínez, Ricardo Álvarez Department of Psychiatry - Vigo Health Area - Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro, Spain , Rodríguez, Rosa María Tomé Department of Psychiatry - Vigo Health Area - Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro, Spain , Ariza, María Álvarez Department of Psychiatry - Vigo Health Area - Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro, Spain , Spuch, Carlos Translational Neuroscience Group - Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, Spain
Abstract :
This is a case of a patient affected by Cushing syndrome that was admitted at the hospital due to hormonal problems. He hadpresented psychiatric symptoms that were mistakenly considered not directly connected to the pathology causing the clinicalcondition, but a mere psychological reaction to it.