American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 100
- Number 5
- March 1944
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages585–592Epilepsy is an infrequent complication of injury to the head in general. All present information indicates that laceration of the brain is an essential factor, whether or not accompanied by injury to the skull or dura, though accompanying laceration of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.585Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages593–598In many cases of epilepsy, the seizures themselves may be controlled by treatment or are not incapacitating, and yet the patient is unable to make a satisfactory social and economic adjustment. The emotional handicaps produced by any chronic disease have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.593Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages599–6051. The predominance of unfavorable hereditary tendencies in the parents of the psychotic children was emphasized by the fact that there was a large number of abnormal siblings in this group. 2. A most striking revelation was the total lack of security in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.599Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages611–6221. The process of inducing hypnosis and the fully developed hypnotic state are a continuum which can be studied satisfactorily only in the novice, and which under such circumstances consists of three stages which shade from one into the next. 2. In the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.611Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages628–632The frequency and significance of a selected type of movement mannerism, nailbiting, have been studied by the interrogation and observation procedures in a sampling of 2297 white and 150 Negro recruits. (1) Nail-biting, regardless of its frequency and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.628Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages633–638Fatal catatonia is considered a complication to the usual schizophrenic course. The syndrome may occur in cases of apparent health or show itself as an exacerbation during any form of schizophrenia. The heredobiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.633Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages648–651The cerebral arterio-venous oxygen differences were determined on three patients with mental symptoms which appeared in the course of pernicious anemia, cardiac decompensation and luetic encephalopathy. In the two patients with an extracerebral origin of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.648Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages652–6581. The majority of schizophrenic patients who improved clinically, showed a significant change in their oral glucose tolerance, this change being towards the normal. 2. In the occasional case, clinical improvement did occur without any significant change ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.652Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages659–6671. The spirogram tracings were analyzed for irregularities in pattern in a series of 64 psychoneurotic patients and 24 normal control subjects during periods of induced ideational stimuli. During the second, third and fourth periods, the subjects were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.659Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages668–673The evidence that the electroshock convulsion syndrome is the result of integrated activity of a cortical area near the fissure of Rolando and is essentially a pyramidal tract syndrome can be summarized as follows: 1. Electrical shocks given near the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.668Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages674–6801. The effect of insulin injections, sufficient in strength to cause convulsive seizures and/or lethargy, has been systematically studied in relation to various aspects of the learning process. 2. For maze learning the following statements have been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.674Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages681–685In four patients with anorexia nervosa, investigations were made on (a) the relation of the psychopathologic reactions to the somatic changes, and (b) the energy metabolism and the absorption and metabolism of food stuffs. Weight changes were found to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.681Publication date: 01 March 1944
Pages686–689Nocturnal enuresis persists into adult life much more commonly than generally recognized. Although normal children are supposed to gain bladder control before age 3, 16. 1 per cent of a group of 1000 consecutive selectees questioned at an army induction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.5.686Publication date: 01 March 1944
Page708Rheumatic heart lesions were present in 0.60 per cent of a group of 662 criminal psychopaths as compared to an incidence of 1.49 per cent in a roughly comparable control group of 18 and 19 year old selective service registrants. Rheumatic encephalopathy ...
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