American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 97, Issue 5
March 1941
Article
March 1941
THE PHARMACOLOGICAL SHOCK TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Pages:1007–1023
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1007
Preview Abstract
1. A two-year follow-up study of 1039 cases of dementia præcox treated by the pharmacological shock method in the New York state hospitals is presented and discussed. 2. It is recommended that statistical compilations include all the factors that seem to ...
March 1941
CONTINUED FOLLOW-UP RESULTS IN INSULIN-SHOCK THERAPY AND IN CONTROL CASES
- Pages:1024–1028
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1024
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This is a study of one hospital working out for itself answers to questions raised by the use of insulin-shock in schizophrenia. At the Pennsylvania Hospital there have been immediate and important gains in one-half of all patients, and in two-thirds of ...
March 1941
PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN INSULIN SHOCK THERAPY
- Pages:1029–1039
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1029
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The study of the results in 50 cases of dementia præcox from six months to two and a half years after insulin shock therapy, with special reference to certain factors considered for their prognostic significance, suggests the following conclusions with ...
March 1941
CURARE: A PREVENTIVE OF TRAUMATIC COMPLICATIONS IN CONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY
- Pages:1040–1060
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1040
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1. Convulsive shock therapy has proved most useful as a means of terminating chronic resistant affective psychoses. 2. The usefulness of this therapy has been restricted and has been in danger of abandonment because of the severity of the convulsive shock ...
March 1941
SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSES
- Pages:1061–1072
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1061
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1. 100 schizophrenic reactions in soldiers were studied immediately after the onset of psychotic symptoms. 2. Paranoid reactions occurred more frequently than all other reactions combined, followed in order by hebephrenic, unclassified or mixed, catatonic ...
March 1941
REGRESSION NEUROSES AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Pages:1073–1085
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1073
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1. An attempt has been made to contrast the symptoms and signs observed in 10 cases of schizophrenia and in 30 cases of regression neuroses. 2. All cases occurred in university students. 3. The impressions resulting from a statistical study would indicate ...
March 1941
THERAPY IN INVOLUTIONAL MELANCHOLIA
- Pages:1086–1115
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1086
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(1) There must be in the minds of medical men a sharp differentiation between the psychosis involutional melancholia and the benign "menopausal symptoms" common to both females and males at the climacteric. (2) The endocrine factors incident to change of ...
March 1941
A PSYCHIATRIC STUDY OF PATIENTS MANIFESTING DYSTROPHIA MYOTONICA
- Pages:1116–1134
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1116
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1. Nine affected and two unaffected members of five families in which dystrophia myotonica has occurred were studied psychiatrically in conjunction with other detailed clinical and research investigations at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. ...
March 1941
MICROCEPHALY
- Pages:1135–1146
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1135
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Two cases have been presented which illustrate two types of pathology which may be encountered in low grade idiocy with microcephaly. The first case represents a developmental arrest with macrogyria and microgyria interna. In its degree of development, ...
March 1941
PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL STUDIES FOLLOWING SECTION OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM
- Pages:1147–1157
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1147
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In a study of seven patients with partial and in three with complete section of the corpus callosum, psychobiological changes were noted in only two. In both of these evidence of involvement of the right cerebrum was present. Consequently it appears that ...
March 1941
AN OBSERVATION NURSERY
- Pages:1158–1174
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1158
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This is an analytical and follow-up study of 250 children of pre- school age, from an observation nursery of a psychiatric division of a city hospital, covering a five-year period. Half of these children were mentally defective, and the majority of these ...
March 1941
THE BULGARIAN TREATMENT OF PARKINSONISM WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS EFFECT ON MENTAL SYMPTOMS
- Pages:1175–1187
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1175
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We have used belladonna root extract in the treatment of parkinsonism over a sufficient length of time and in a series of cases sufficiently large for us to draw these conclusions: 1. The mild mental symptoms in most of these patients were materially ...
March 1941
THE MENTAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BRAIN-INJURED MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILD
- Pages:1194–1203
- Published Online:1 April 2006
March 1941
THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR
- Pages:1204–1218
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.5.1204
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1. Hypoglycemia leads to a general decrease in cortical activity, measurable by a delay in and an inaccuracy of mental functions. This condition is accompanied by typical changes in the electroencephalogram and in the electrocorticogram which indicate a ...
March 1941
PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES IN VIRGINIA AND SOME NEIGHBORING STATES
- Pages:1219–1237
- Published Online:1 April 2006
March 1941
New Facts on Mental Disorders—Study of 89,190 Cases
- Pages:1248–1250
- Published Online:1 April 2006
March 1941
Graduate Medical Education. A Report of the Commission on Graduate Medical Education, 1940
- Pages:1252–1254
- Published Online:1 April 2006
March 1941
The Mind Of Man : The Story of Mens' Conquest of Mental Illness
- Page:1257
- Published Online:1 April 2006