Neurotic behaviours

The general aim of the operation is to modify the disordered behaviour of many psychotic and neurotic patients whose illness has been of a prolonged type. The tendency is to select patients on a symptomatic than on a nosological basis. 

The name scurvy is derived from the Italian rcoftozVo, meaning an irritable, neurotic, discontented, whining and cranky person. The disease is associated with listlessness and general malaise, and sometimes with changes in personality and psychomotor performance and a lowering of the general level of arousal. These behavioural effects can be attributed to impaired synthesis of catecholamine neurotransmitters, as a result of low activity of dopamine P-hydroxylase. 

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