American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 99, Issue 4
January 1943
Article
January 1943
CLINICAL STUDIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Pages:475–483
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.475
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The scrutiny of this small group of patients, presenting a serious deterioration of insidious onset, reveals as outstanding factors the constitutional inadequacy of the individual patient and the unfavorable external factors which conditioned and ...
January 1943
METHODS OF ESTIMATING CAPACITY FOR RECOVERY IN PATIENTS WITH MANIC-DEPRESSIVE AND SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSES
- Pages:496–506
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.496
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Methods of evaluating capacity for recovery, including conventional psychiatric procedures and determination of serum lipoids, have been investigated in 142 patients with manic-depressive and schizophrenic psychoses. The conventional clinical psychiatric ...
January 1943
CLINICAL AND BIOLOGICAL INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND EPILEPSY
- Pages:507–512
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.507
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1. In the majority of cases showing an association of epileptic and schizophrenic symptoms, we may deal either with symptomatic epilepsy in schizophrenia, or, what is more common, with a symptomatic schizophrenia in epilepsy. 2. The number of cases ...
January 1943
FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF A SERIES OF PATIENTS TREATED BY ELECTRICALLY INDUCED CONVULSIONS AND BY METRAZOL CONVULSIONS
- Pages:513–518
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.513
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We have presented briefly a preliminary report on the results of a follow-up study of psychiatric patients treated by means of electrically induced convulsions and by means of metrazol convulsions. Of the former, 144 cases were studied and of the latter, ...
January 1943
A CONSIDERATION OF SOME EXPERIENCES WITH ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT IN MENTAL DISEASES, WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO VARIOUS PSYCHOSOMATIC PHENOMENA AND TO CERTAIN ELECTROTECHNICAL FACTORS
- Pages:519–524
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.519
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1. The properties of electrical currents, which basically determine the stimulatory efficiency are: type of current, amperage and length of time stimulus is applied. The threshold cannot be computed accurately in terms of voltage, due to variations in ...
January 1943
COMPARATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS FOLLOWING ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY USING RAW 60 CYCLE ALTERNATING AND UNIDIRECTIONAL FLUCTUATING CURRENT
- Pages:525–530
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.525
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Electroencephalographic observations have been made on 30 patients, 15 of whom received convulsions by means of raw a. c., 15 by means of unidirectional fluctuating current; and it is suggested that there is a significant increase in the occurrence of ...
January 1943
CONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS—RISKS AND RESULTS
- Pages:531–533
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.531
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Fifty patients over 50 years of age who had severe mental illness were treated with convulsive shock therapy. Of these 50 patients, 40 were either recovered or improved enough to be discharged to their homes. Ten remained unimproved. Although the risks ...
January 1943
A STUDY OF MALNUTRITION IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Pages:534–541
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.534
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1. On admission, the degree of malnutrition found in chronic schizophrenic patients is not significantly different from that found in the entire hospital population. 2. While the entire hospital population has little change in the extent of malnutrition ...
January 1943
STUDIES ON THE PROGNOSIS IN SCHIZOPHRENIC-LIKE PSYCHOSES IN CHILDREN
- Pages:542–552
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January 1943
THE TREATMENT OF INVOLUTIONAL PSYCHOSES WITH DIETHYL STILBESTROL
- Pages:557–564
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.557
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1. Large doses of diethyl stilbestrol were administered to 45 women with involutional psychoses. 2. Twenty-seven (60 per cent) were improved, while in a control series of 128 women, only 54 (42 per cent) were improved. 3. (A) The simple cases of ...
January 1943
AN ALCOHOL DETOXICATION MECHANISM IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- Pages:565–568
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.565
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1. An alcohol oxidation mechanism has been found to be present in brain. The extraction and analysis of the system has been described. 2. Two members of the vitamin B complex, namely nicotinic acid and riboflavin, are components,i. e., they are essential ...
January 1943
DISAPPOINTING RESULTS WITH BILATERAL PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Pages:569–570
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.4.569
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Bilateral prefrontal lobotomy was performed on 10 chronically disturbed schizophrenics and one mentally deficient patient. Insignificant amelioration of symptoms was noted in two and no improvement in all the other patients. One patient became decidedly ...
January 1943
PSYCHOTIC VISITORS TO GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
- Pages:571–575
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January 1943
THE PSYCHOSOMATIC INTERRELATIONSHIP OF UTERINE RETRODISPLACEMENT AND PROLAPSE TO NORMAL AND PSYCHOTIC WOMEN
- Pages:576–578
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January 1943
GENERAL CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOSOMATICS AND PSYCHOMETRICS
- Pages:591–595
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January 1943
ENDOCRINOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPATHOLOGY
- Pages:595–598
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January 1943
Goals and Desires of Man. A Psychological Survey of Life
- Pages:627-b–628
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January 1943
In Commemoration of William James. Papers presented at various meetings to commemorate the centenary of his birth
- Page:631
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