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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 100
  • Number 7
  • May 1944

Article

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages727–737

By means of a single application to the cerebral motor cortex of certain chemical and immunologic agents, it has been possible to produce convulsive seizures in the rhesus monkey. Of more significance than the acute manifestations observed, was the state ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.727

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages738–749

The electroencephalograms of 175 cases of post-traumatic epilepsy and of 215 cases of head injury without epilepsy were compared. The group of head injury patients without epilepsy was subdivided into 113 cases of mild injury and 102 cases of severe ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.738

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages762–770

1. The clinical records of 250 male nonpsychotic sex offenders, admitted consecutively to the psychiatric division of Bellevue Hospital over a period of thirteen months, were studied. Clinical data regarding type of offense, age, racial origin, nativity, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.762

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages771–774

1. A comparative statistical study of male and female addicts based on the clinical records of one hundred men and one hundred women admitted to the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Ky., is presented. 2. Statistically typical male and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.771

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages781–787

A 57-year-old rural Negro of unusually rugged and independent disposition, owner of a 150-acre farm, went through a series of depressing incidents prior to the build-up of hypomanic activity which terminated with psycholeptic suddenness in the outbreak of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.781

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages788–791

Two tests of memory have been devised to measure the remembering ability of patients with severe memory impairment of organic origin. In this study, the patients were seniles with behavior disturbances sufficient to require hospitalization. One test ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.788

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages800–804

1. Fifty-six patients were treated with amphetamine sulfate during the early post-intoxication period of the acute alcoholic cycle. The cycle was interrupted in 49 cases, with 7 patients failing to respond satisfactorily. The cycle was not interrupted in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.800

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages817–824

The admission to, and the housing of an insane patient in a general hospital is not new. Complete and successful integration of the admission and the treatment of such a patient in a general hospital is new and requires not only patience and tact, but ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.817

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages825–829

A relative anoxia of the cerebral cortex occurs before, during and after convulsions induced electrically or by a variety of drugs. This relative anoxia is believed to be caused by increased cerebral metabolism.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.825

Publication date: 01 May 1944

Pages830–838

1. A series of 31 patients presenting as a dominant feature in their clinical picture obsessive-compulsive phenomena were studied clinically and electroencephalographically. Twenty-four of these cases were classifiable as psychoneurotic, obsessive-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.7.830

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