American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 101
- Number 3
- November 1944
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages316–3241. The personal background and army experience of a group of soldiers overseas has been studied and compared. These included hospitalized psychiatric casualties of which about a third were psychotic and the rest were psychoneurotic. Members of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.316Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages325–330Observation of over 800 cases seen at a redistribution station show uniformity of symptoms of operational fatigue varying from mild to severe in about 30 percent of aircrew returning from combat areas to this country. Three main sources of operational ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.325EXPERIENCES IN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SCREENING OF OVERSEAS REPLACEMENTS AT AN OVERSEAS REPLACEMENT CENTER
Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages336–3421. A technique for rapid neuropsychiatric screening has been described. 2. Comment has been made on some of the factors inherent in the difficulties of accomplishing adequate psychiatric screening.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.336Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages343–348An examining procedure has been presented which is an elaboration of certain items employed by Henry Head in the examination of aphasics. Statistical results are presented based upon a comparison between the performance of individuals above average ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.343Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages355–360Physiologic changes resulting from fear, play a major rôle in the persistence and intensification of the battle reaction. They increase irritability which results in exaggeration of the effects of both internal and external stimuli. Drug therapy in order ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.355Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages370–3741. The importance of the annual examination of all patients resident in a psychiatric hospital rather than only those with known reinfection tuberculosis has been emphasized by the comparison of the status of a large group of patients in 1935 with their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.370Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages389–395Sixteen cats were trained to adapt to situations of increasing complexity; first they opened a box of food, then they were taught to feed only after specific sensory stimuli, and finally they learned to manipulate a switch in various positions to actuate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.389Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages396–399Insulin therapy has proven superior to other available methods for the treatment of acute alcoholism. It shortens the period of disability and is highly acceptable to patients. In war time, a saving in man-hours and avoidance of replacements are important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.396Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages400–403A syndrome, characterized clinically by rapidly fluctuating psychic, neurologic and vasomotor reactions and pathoanatomically by complex changes referable to the meningovascular system of the brain, is presented. The occurrence of this condition as an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.3.400Publication date: 01 November 1944
Pages407–4091. In 122 children with behavior disorders, enuresis was reported more frequently (38 or 31.2 percent) than any other neurotic trait. 2. Male children and those in the age group of 13 to 18 years had abnormal EEGs more commonly than females or children in ...
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