American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 101
- Number 1
- July 1944
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages12–19In pursuing these policies of prevention and treatment, many difficulties remain. Perhaps the most outstanding is the widespread misconception regarding the whole subject of mental health in the mind not only of military personnel but of the civilian ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.12Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages30–35Unilateral atrophic cerebral lesions occurring early in life frequently produce cranial asymmetry that may easily be detected in plain skull radiographs; This asymmetry consists in ipsilateral decrease in size of the cranial chamber and often increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.30Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages42–501. One hundred cases with organic brain disease and delta activity in the electroencephalogram were studied for correlations of the psychiatric status with the electroencephalogram and anatomical localization. 2. This investigation showed that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.42Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages51–61The EEGs of the 20 best behaved boys in a junior high school class of 131 boys were compared with the tracings of the 20 most troublesome boys in the class. These represented extremes from the point of view of behaviour and adjustment in a given ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.51Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages64–67The speech of psychotic senile patients was analyzed grammatically, and compared with that of normal adults and children. Pronouns, verbs and adjectives display the most prominent differences between the senile and the normal subjects. Pronouns are used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.64Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages68–72Four years experience with the group method indicates that it is one which may solve the problem of giving adequate psychiatric care to greater numbers of neurotic patients. All of the psychotherapeutic methods of individual therapy are utilized, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.68Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages82–90The EGGs of 1,593 neuropsychiatric cases are analyzed and the tracings are classified as "normal" or "abnormal." "Abnormality" is defined as activity with a predominant frequency outside the range of 8 to 12 per second or a tendency to change greatly with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.82Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages97–99Basal metabolic rate determinations, fasting blood sugar determinations, glucose tolerance tests, and measurements of X-ray films of the pituitary fossae were made on a group of male homosexuals. No significant deviations from the normal were found.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.97Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages105–109While acting as civilian neuro-psychiatric examiner at an army induction station from November 1940 to November 1943, the author encountered three cases presenting an interesting psychiatric syndrome characterized by hyperesthesias, excessive startle ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.105Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages110–112The cerebrospinal fluid protein and cell content and pressure was obtained before, during and after a series of electric shock treatments performed upon a group of 21 psychotics. In only one case, a diabetic, hypertensive, arteriosclerotic woman, was a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.1.110Publication date: 01 July 1944
Pages117–118A case of atypical status epilepticus is reported in which convulsive spasms were slight and tended selectively to affect muscles associated with respiration with the result that cyanosis was deeper than the degree observed in ordinary status epilepticus. ...
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