American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 104
- Number 11
- May 1948
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages673–681A complete clinical study of a hypothyroid boy, age 13, was made for a period of 2 years. An examination of the higher nervous activity by the conditional reflex method showed that the ability to form and differentiate conditional reflexes ran parallel to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.673Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages686–6961. Nine patients, 4 with depression, 5 with schizophrenia, were studied with respect to changes in the beta activity of the EEG induced by the intravenous injection of sodium amytal mg. 250 (with racemic amphetamine sulfate mg. 20). These changes were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.686Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages697–7061. The cerebrospinal fluid of untreated schizophrenics shows a pronounced selective absorption in ultraviolet at λ= 2650 A. 2. Electroshock treatment influences the ultraviolet absorption of the cerebrospinal fluid (initial decrease, followed by increase ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.697Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages707–712The present study has attempted to determine the effect of electric shock treatment on mental efficiency. The population studied included 75 patients, suffering from depression, hypomania, or psychoneurosis. The mean age was 41.2 years ; the mean number ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.707Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages713–724The empirical finding of the present study can be stated simply enough : mental patients who have died of other causes than exhaustive diseases include in their number a strikingly large proportion of persons with long, lean, wiry, not merely ectomorphic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.713Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages725–729Complete syphilitic optic atrophy in dementia paralytica, including taboparalysis, has been observed in 2%. Incipient and intermediate stages of optic atrophy are much more frequent and have been found in 62.5%, on histologic examination, of the optic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.725Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages730–737It will be noticed that the authors have not laid overemphasis on sexual responses. These are manifested by particular attention to the lower details, interpreted as portions of the female pelvis or to phallic symbols or to their complete avoidance (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.11.730Publication date: 01 May 1948
Pages744–7451. A case of transient auricular fibrillation in the use of electroconvulsive therapy is presented. 2. Electrocardiograms were taken prior to the electroconvulsive therapy and during the clinical manifestations of the fibrillation. An electrocardiogram ...
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