1. Progress in attaining the objectives of a mental hygiene component in a city health district is reported. 2. The 1933 survey indicates that 25 per cent of all psychotics in the district are not hospitalized. 3. Personality disorder of varying severity ...

January 1941

PERSONALITY DISORDERS WITH BRAIN TUMORS

MARK KANZER

Pages:812–830
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.812

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1. Symptoms of psychic disorders were found with few exceptions in a series of 205 cases of neoplasm of the brain. 2. The mental disorders with brain tumors are essentially similar to those found with other types of organic psychoses and range in severity ...

January 1941

AN EVALUATION OF MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS IN THE LIGHT OF FOLLOW-UP STUDIES

PAUL HOCH, and
H. L. RACHLIN

Pages:831–843
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.831

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Many cases which were originally diagnosed as manic-depressives were subsequently reclassified as schizophrenia. Review of New York State and Federal statistics for other states show: (a) Marked fluctuation in the number of manic-depressives as compared ...

January 1941

PROLONGED COMA IN INSULIN THERAPY OF THE PSYCHOSES

HERVEY CLECKLEY, and
C. M. TEMPLETON

Pages:844–857
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.844

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No adequate explanation can be offered by us for the occurrence of prolonged non-hypoglycemic coma in the six cases reported. Intensive treatment with thiamin chloride, nicotinic acid and with riboflavin failed to terminate the coma. Nicotinic acid ...

January 1941

THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR

ROSS A. MCFARLAND

Pages:858–877
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.858

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In this paper the importance of constancy in the internal environment for the stability and well being of the organism as a whole and the cerebral cortex in particular has been emphasized. Numerous illustrations were cited from studies at high altitude to ...

January 1941

THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR

CURT P. RICHTER

Pages:878–893
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.878

January 1941

PARADOXICAL VESTIBULAR REACTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, OF HYPERPNEA AND CO₂ INHALATION

A. ANGYAL, and
N. BLACKMAN

Pages:894–903
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.894

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1. The nystagmic reaction to caloric stimulation under the influence of alcohol, increased CO₂ tension and decreased CO₂ tension has been studied in schizophrenic and normal persons. 2. Under these experimental conditions, the schizophrenic patients ...

January 1941

A TECHNIQUE FOR THE MODIFICATION OF METRAZOL THERAPY PROCEDURE

Pages:904–[904]-1
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.904

January 1941

A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN CASES OF CASTRATION

GEORGE E. DANIELS, and
EDWARD S. TAUBER

Pages:905–918
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.905

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1. Replacement therapy should be preceded by a careful pre- and post-operative personality study and prolonged observation. 2. Psychotherapy alone may enhance sexual expression in castrates—as was strikingly demonstrated in a woman patient. 3. In a ...

January 1941

THE EFFECTS OF TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE IN IMPOTENCE

Pages:919–943
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.919

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1. Eighteen men who complained of impotence and who had no obvious disease of the central nervous system, no marked structural changes in the genito-urinary tract except for absence of spermatozoa in Case 4, or no manifest deficiency in the internal ...

January 1941

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE NATURE OF HYPOTHALAMIC EXCITATION

ERNST GELLHORN

Pages:944–954
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.944

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1. Experiments are briefly cited in which in narcotized cats, the hypothalamus was stimulated and the contraction of the nictitating membrane on the same side recorded. In addition to this the cephalad end of the cervical sympathetic was stimulated on the ...

January 1941

ANALYSIS OF SEX OFFENSES AMONG MALE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

SAMUEL H. RUSKIN

Pages:955–968
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.4.955

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1. Of 1,932 mental patients who formed the male population of Eloise Hospital on February 15, 1940, 130 or 6.7 per cent were found to be sex delinquents. 2. Fourteen or 10.8 per cent of the group of 130 patients were actual sex offenders before the ...

January 1941