Adenohypophyseal hormones and catecholamines in patients with diencephalic pathology.

The study involved 75 patients with diencephalic pathology (58 females and 17 males, mean age 39 years). All patients underwent thorough somatic and neurological check up and examination of the autonomic nervous system as well. The etiology was considered to be infection in 60 patients (60%) and brain injury in the other 15 (20%).

[Obesity and hypersomnia].

Seventy one patients with hypersomniac paroxysms--Pickwickian and Kleine-Levin syndromes, were studied, the incidence of combination of hypersomnia and obesity--followed up. They are supposed to have common pathogenetic mechanisms, giving weight to lesions of hypothalamo-reticulo-limbic structures in viral infections, craniocerebral traumas, intoxications and tumours. The pathological processes advanced in the reticulo-hypothalamo-hypophyseal region lead to hormonal regulatory disorders and disturbances in adaptation and compensatory mechanisms of metabolism, of lipid metabolism including, of sleep and vigilance.