American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 103
- Number 2
- September 1946
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages145–148I. Industrial management is open-minded about the application of psychiatry in industry provided the psychiatrist is willing to learn about industry and its problems. In our own experience, we find that top management increasingly asks for psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.145Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages149–153In addition to its basic function as an integral part of the preventive arm of industrial medicine, industrial psychiatry has an active rôle to play in the rapidly growing field of industrial human relations. As the consulting, advisory, educational and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.149Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages159–161Two new drugs increase the range and the effectiveness of the control of epileptic seizures. Trimethyloxazolidine dione (tridione) used alone has proved wonderfully effective in controlling seizures of the petit mal triad; petit mal (pykno-epilepsy), ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.159Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages162–164Tridione, a new addition to the treatment of the cerebral dysrhythmias, is helpful in the control of psychomotor seizures. While effective in certain instances if used alone, it is most helpful if used in combination with sodium diphenylhydantoinate and/...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.162Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages165–1711. The neuropsychiatric study of 10,000 separatees demobilized under the regulations existing during December 1945 and January 1946 showed that only 257 men (2.57%) had sufficient complaints to warrant a neuropsychiatric diagnosis. Of these, 51, or 0.51%, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.165Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages179–184This study demonstrates statistically in an unselected group of 100 male patients the frequent favorable influence of intercurrent physical disorders upon the course of mental illness. Not infrequently, as seen in II percent of the patients, the physical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.179Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages185–187Patients evacuated to a naval hospital in this country from the Pacific battle area because of nervous conditions, excluding psychoses and psychopathic personalities, were examined in regard to nail biting. From routine admissions, 100 nail biters were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.185Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages188–195The study of 20 stuttering psychotic patients at the Central Islip State Hospital showed: (a) One in every 350 psychotic patients or .28 percent, stuttered. (b) The psychiatric diagnosis was mainly schizoprenia. (c) Fifteen cases were of the introverted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.188Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages200–204The psychiatric experience in Hanford, Washington, a community of 60,000 persons which existed for 1½ years during the construction phase of a war plant situated in a drab, isolated, desert environment, is related. The need for a planned psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.200Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages205–213Merely doing fundamental neurological evaluation and giving neurosurgical consideration, then assigning patients to physiotherapy and reconditioning do not effect understanding or sufficient therapy for men with brain damage. Groping for reintegration, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.205Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages217–228In a preliminary investigation, an impairment index scale developed by one of us (W.C.H.) for reflecting impairment of biological intelligence has been applied to 8 carefully selected individuals before and after prefrontal lobotomy and to another ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.217Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages229–237A bromide psychosis is one which starts during bromide intoxication and clears up fairly soon—usually several weeks, though sometimes longer—after discontinuance of the drug. Four varieties of bromide psychosis are known: 1. Simple intoxication, marked by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.229Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages238–2411. The orbital cortex was partly isolated on 22 schizophrenics, and good response was observed where there were symptoms of introversion, blockage, emotional dulling and depersonalisation present. 2. The isolation of the orbital lobe produced a triad of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.2.238Publication date: 01 September 1946
Pages247–248Glucose tolerance studies in 50 chronic alcoholics showed decreased tolerance in 10% of the cases and increased tolerance in 44% of the cases. The incidence of hypoglycemia and its role in the aggravation of tension states common in alcoholism should be ...
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