[Schizophrenia and neuro-endocrine functional disorders--a case study on the problem of paranoid psychosis].

: Schizophrenia and neuro-endocrine functional defects - a case report concerning the problem of paranoid psychosis: The case of a female patient with paranoic psychosis and endocrine defects has been reported. Under the present pathophysiological concepts the possibility of a combination of schizophrenic and neuro-endocrine symptomatic is suggested. The results of more recent investigations are discussed in respect of organic origin of schizophrenia that is based on potential reduction in the region of the limbic-hypothalamic nervous system.