HYPOTHALAMIC ATTACKS WITH THALAMIC LESION

Abstract

An extensive neuropathologic study was undertaken on a young man aged 17¾, who died in one of an extended series of attacks of hyperthermia. He had been studied rather exhaustively clinically, having been examined by more than one hundred physicians; it was recognized during the latter part of his life that the attacks from which he suffered were most likely due to disturbed hypothalamic function. Since the study appeared to cast some light on thalamic and hypothalamic function, and more on hypothalamic regulation, it was deemed advisable to record the neurohistologic findings in some detail. The clinical data and the physiologic and psychosomatic aspects were discussed in the foregoing article.¹ PATHOLOGIC REPORT Postmortem Examination. —The examination was performed two hours after death. The body was that of a small, somewhat poorly nourished white male whose size and conformation suggested an age not over 12 or 14 years. The hair