CONTINUED FOLLOW-UP RESULTS IN INSULIN-SHOCK THERAPY AND IN CONTROL CASES

EARL D. BONDAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 97, Number 5

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 acute cases (less than 18 months in duration).

After two years these gains remained in only one-fourth of all patients, but in one-half of the acute cases.

Control cases in the same hospital were found to show similar gains, two years from the time of admission, in one-sixth of all cases. These gains were without important relation to the previous duration of illness.

The experience of one hospital indicates that insulin-shock is a strikingly effective agent in schizophrenia. It also indicates a need for supportive measures to hold more firmly the gains that come quickly but which often tend to disappear.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 97 • Number 5 • March 1941

Pages: 1024 - 1028

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Published in print: March 1941

Published online: 1 April 2006

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EARL D. BOND

The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

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CONTINUED FOLLOW-UP RESULTS IN INSULIN-SHOCK THERAPY AND IN CONTROL CASES

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