American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 102
- Number 6
- May 1946
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages721–727During the year 1942 the NP. cases in the E. T. O. were cared for by the NP. sections of the station and general hospitals then functioning in the theatre. On August 12, 1942, Colonel Lloyd J. Thompson was appointed senior consultant in neuropsychiatry in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.721Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages749–757A definition and elaboration of the meaning of morale is submitted. In terms of this definition an analysis is presented of the morale of American troops before and after the end of World War II. The frustration effects of poor military morale and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.749Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages780–782Two pregnant women were given shock therapy. One received insulin-coma treatment during the second and third months of pregnancy. The other received both insulin-coma and electroshock treatment between the first and fifth months. Both patients went into ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.780Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages783–787In a series of 12 selected cases it has been found that combined shock and corpus luteum therapy is of definite benefit in the alleviation of psychotic symptoms, especially if connected with "post-puerperal" and premenstrual activations or exacerbations.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.783Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages791–798The paradoxical association of relatively large amplitude alpha 10± per second activity with a relatively low level of waking cerebral function is attributed to the inhibitory effects of subcortical 10 ± per second pacing of activity in the cortex and to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.791Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages799–804A study is presented of the electroencephalographic effects of small oral doses of the usual sedative drugs (phenobarbital, sodium amytal, nembutal, seconal, paraldehyde, chloral) in 10 normal subjects with normal EEGs. Data on 45 psychiatric patients who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.799Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages805–818Twenty-eight cases of toxic psychosis during or following the therapeutic administration of atabrine are reported. Although the psychotic reactions occurred in less than 2 patients per 1000 treated with atabrine on this island, the number of mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.805Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages822–824Almost all the psychiatric battle casualties could be retained in a theatre of war performing useful duties. The proportion returned to combatant duties after brief treatment in forward areas without being severed from their units was encouraging but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.6.822Publication date: 01 May 1946
Pages825–8271. There is no positive relationship between aggressive crime and marihuana usage in the Naval service (Tables I and IV). 2. Similarly, there is no significant causal relationship between aggressive crime in civilian life (of the naval offenders studied) ...
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