American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 113, Issue 4
October 1956
Article
October 1956
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA AND ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
- Pages:295–301
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.295
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1. A case of pheochromocytoma is reported with a fatal cardiac arrest following electroconvlusive therapy. The diagnosis was particularly difficult as no paroxysm of hypertension was ever detected. In addition, there was no sustained hypertension to ...
October 1956
PHRENOPHAGIA: A FORM OF HUMAN ARTIFICIAL SELECTION
- Pages:312–318
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.312
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A process of human artificial selection has been described as it has been practiced for many generations in areas of the world under Russian control. In essence, the process consists of suppression and liquidation of individuals whose personalities and ...
October 1956
INTRACRANIAL TUMORS FOUND AT AUTOPSY IN MENTAL PATIENTS
- Pages:319–324
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.319
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The intracranial tumors found at autopsy in 2,161 mental patients are reported. This group represents 96.9% of all patients who were autopsied at the Western State Hospital during the 16-year period from October 1, 1938, to October 1, 1954. Seventy-eight ...
October 1956
ARMY PSYCHIATRY IN KOREA FOLLOWING THE CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT
- Pages:325–331
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.325
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Follow-up findings of 133 psychiatric patients evaluated between September 1953 and March 1954 from miscellaneous units surrounding the psychiatric section,3rd Infantry Division, reveal that 75% of patients not in the process of separation at the time of ...
October 1956
AN OPERATIONAL CONCEPTION OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Pages:332–336
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.332
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If the operations stemming from a concept comprise its meaning, the meaning of criminal responsibility is defined as deterrent efficiency and/or efficient punishability, quantitative, operational concepts without the metaphysical connotations of moral ...
October 1956
BRAIN CHANGES IN ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY
- Pages:337–347
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.337
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1. The brains of 4 patients who died following electroshock treatment were studied. 2. A massive intraventricular hemorrhage was found in one. The other 3 had petechial hemorrhages, particularly in the periaqueductal gray matter and brainstem. 3. Only 1 ...
October 1956
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC INDICES OF EMOTIONAL STRESS
- Pages:348–351
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.348
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Many investigators have reported that persons under emotional stress display characteristic electrocardiographic changes. Some of these reports are reviewed to determine whether any generalizations are evident. From the published data, it appears that ...
October 1956
THE EFFECT OF MESCALINE ON DIFFERENTIATED CONDITIONAL REFLEXES
- Pages:352–360
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.352
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Mescaline produced an inhibitory state accompanied by a schizokenesis or dissociation of systems. This disharmony was also manifested in that the CS appeared to act in the same manner as the US. On this basis a neurodynamic theory of the mechanism of ...
October 1956
THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF BRAIN DAMAGE FROM ALCOHOLISM
- Pages:361–362
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.361
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1. Prolonged heavy drinking can produce permanent brain damage. 2. This brain damage is responsible, in many cases, for the permanent loss of control over alcohol that is pathognomonic of alcoholism.
October 1956
SPINAL PUMPING THERAPY IN PSYCHIATRY
- Pages:363–364
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.363
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No noticeable therapeutic results were obtained in a series of 50 psychotic patients treated with spinal pumping procedures (Speransky's method). This method cannot be recommended for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
October 1956
PSYCHIATRIC ADMISSIONS TO A GENERAL HOSPITAL
- Page:365
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.4.365
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A study of emergency psychiatric admissions to a suburban general hospital for a 2-year period is presented. Unfortunately cases listed as "attempted suicides" could not be classified as to diagnosis. Such cases received only emergency treatment and then ...
October 1956
CHRONIC MENTAL PATIENTS' REACTIONS TO OPENING THEIR WARD
- Page:366
- Published Online:1 April 2006
October 1956
Studies in Schizophrenia: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mind-Brain Relationships
- Page:383
- Published Online:1 April 2006
October 1956
Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery (1955-1956 Series)
- Page:384
- Published Online:1 April 2006