American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 97, Issue 1
July 1940
Article
July 1940
A STUDY OF ONE HUNDRED PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PSYCHOSIS WITH CEREBRAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
- Pages:16–26
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July 1940
RESPIRATORY RESPONSE OF PSYCHONEUROTIC PATIENTS TO IDEATIONAL AND TO SENSORY STIMULI
- Pages:27–48
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.27
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1. A series of experiments was carried out on a group of psychoneurotic patients and of normal controls, in which was studied the effect on the respiration of the administration of a painful stimulus and of its subsequent recall. The changes in minute ...
July 1940
INTRACRANIAL TUMORS IN MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENTS
- Pages:49–58
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.49
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In the course of routine autopsy examinations at the Western Washington State Mental Hospital during a two year period, thirty cases of intracranial tumor were found, giving a percentage incidence of 13.5. This figure is so much higher than that of any ...
July 1940
THE PSYCHIATRIC FINDINGS IN THE CASES OF 500 TRAFFIC OFFENDERS AND ACCIDENT-PRONE DRIVERS
- Pages:68–79
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July 1940
A SURVEY OF MENTAL ILLNESS ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
- Pages:80–101
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.80
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(1) Contrary to many previous reports, the majority of the patients of this series were found to have manic-depressive psychoses, a large number were cases of dementia præcox, and only 3.6 per cent were considered to be toxic-exhaustive deliria. The ...
July 1940
DYNAMIC DISTURBANCES IN THE HANDWRITING OF PSYCHOTICS
- Pages:102–135
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.102
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1. The handwriting of psychotic patients show definite characteristics. 2. The basic disturbance in the psychotic handwriting is expressed by the drastic disturbance in the dynamic relationship. 3. The fundamental dynamic disturbance finds different ...
July 1940
THE TREATMENT OF DELIRIUM TREMENS WITH INSULIN IN SUB-SHOCK DOSES
- Pages:136–151
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.136
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Insulin with carbohydrates seems at this time to be the only method of treating delirium tremens which has improved upon the statistical results reported by Kraepelin, who used diet, support and paraldehyde for rest. Insulin is effective because it ...
July 1940
A STUDY OF INSIGHT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
- Pages:152–162
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.152
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1. The insight of 100 patients discharged from a private sanitarium has been studied. 2. Among those diagnosed as depressions there was a greater proportion of patients who showed good insight on admission than among those with other psychoses. ...
July 1940
THE EFFECT OF 10 MG. OF BENZEDRINE SULFATE ON THE OTIS TEST SCORES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
- Pages:163–166
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.163
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Forty-two male college students were divided into two groups. One group was given 10 mg. of benzedrine sulfate, and the other a placebo at the first session. They were then given a form of the Otis self-administering tests of mental ability (higher form). ...
July 1940
PROGNOSTIC CRITERIA IN DEMENTIA PARALYTICA
- Pages:167–188
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.167
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1. One hundred cases of dementia paralytica treated at the Worcester State Hospital between the years 1925-1938 were studied to determine criteria useful in the prognosis. An inquiry into the cause of failure of one-half to two-thirds of paretics to ...
July 1940
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THINKING IN SCHIZOPHRENIC CHILDREN AND IN CHILDREN OF PRESCHOOL AGE
- Pages:189–213
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.189
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An analogy is frequently drawn between schizophrenic and child thinking. In order to check the validity of such analogy, verbal productions from protocols of fifteen normal children of pre- school age (two to five years) and three schizophrenic children (...
July 1940
SET IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIC AS MEASURED BY A COMPOSITE REACTION TIME INDEX
- Pages:214–225
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.97.1.214
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Twenty-five schizophrenic patients and 10 normal subjects were used in an experiment on reaction time employing preparatory intervals of 1, 2, 4, 7.5, 15 and 25 seconds in length. Two procedures were used. In theregular warning procedure each particular ...
July 1940
Psychiatrie Médicale, Physiologique et Expérimentale. Sémeiologie-Thérapeutique
- Pages:241–245
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July 1940
Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry and Endocrinology
- Pages:247–248
- Published Online:1 April 2006