EFFECT OF BENZEDRINE SULPHATE ALTERNATED WITH SODIUM AMYTAL IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

LEON REZNIKOFFAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.2.196

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1. Administration of benzedrine sulphate and sodium amytal on alternating days cannot be recommended as a therapeutic procedure for schizophrenia.

2. While the author is not enthusiastic about results obtainable with metrazol shock therapy in schizophrenia because of the definitely temporary nature of improvement when it does occur, and the serious complications, the results obtained from the trial with benzedrine and amytal, when compared with metrazol shock, were not only considerably inferior but practically negligible.

3. Intravenous injections of large doses of benzedrine sulphate (30 mg.) every other day for a month to young, physically healthy adults caused no harmful effects of permanent nature.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98 • Number 2 • September 1941

Pages: 196 - 200

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Published in print: September 1941

Published online: 1 April 2006

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LEON REZNIKOFF

Clinical Director, Hudson County Hospital for Mental Diseases, Secaucus, N. J.

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EFFECT OF BENZEDRINE SULPHATE ALTERNATED WITH SODIUM AMYTAL IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

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